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ArticlePsychiatry research2012

The effect of family therapy on the changes in the severity of on-line game play and brain activity in adolescents with on-line game addiction.

Doug Hyun Han, Sun Mi Kim, Young Sik Lee, Perry F Renshaw

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Article in Psychiatry research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Doug Hyun HanDepartment of Psychiatry, Chung Ang University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sun Mi Kim
Young Sik Lee
Perry F Renshaw
Chung-Ang University · KRUniversity of Utah · US

Funding

Mentoring in Drug Abuse NeuroimagingK05DA031247 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI RENSHAW, PERRY FRANKLIN · 2011 to 2015
$661k
NIDA NIH HHS K05 DA031247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated whether a brief 3-week family therapy intervention would change patterns of brain activation in response to affection and gaming cues in adolescents from dysfunctional families who met criteria for on-line game addiction. Fifteen adolescents with on-line game addiction and fifteen adolescents without problematic on-line game play and an intact family structure were recruited. Over 3 weeks, families were asked to carry out homework assignments focused on increasing family cohesion for more than 1 hour/day and 4 days/week. Before therapy, adolescents with on-line game addiction demonstrated decreased activity as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) within the caudate, middle temporal gyrus, and occipital lobe in response to images depicting parental affection and increased activity of the middle frontal and inferior parietal in response scenes from on-line games, relative to healthy comparison subjects. Improvement in perceived family cohesion following 3 weeks of treatment was associated with an increase in the activity of the caudate nucleus in response to affection stimuli and was inversely correlated with changes in on-line game playing time. With evidence of brain activation changes in response to on-line game playing cues and images depicting parental love, the present findings suggest that family cohesion may be an important factor in the treatment of problematic on-line game playing.

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Online SystemsAdolescentAffectBehavior, AddictiveBrainCarbamide PeroxideFamily TherapyFemaleFunctional LateralityHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLinear ModelsMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePeroxidesUreaCarbamide PeroxidePeroxidesUrea

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PMID22698763
PMCPMC4651430
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