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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2018

Gender-related differences in neural responses to gaming cues before and after gaming: implications for gender-specific vulnerabilities to Internet gaming disorder.

Guangheng Dong, Lingxiao Wang, Xiaoxia Du, Marc N Potenza

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Guangheng DongSchool of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.
Lingxiao WangDepartment of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xiaoxia DuDepartment of Physics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Marc N PotenzaDepartment of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Child Study Center, and National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
East China Normal University · CNHangzhou Normal University · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNYale University · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Backgrounds: More males than females play video games and develop problems with gaming. However, little is known regarding how males and females who game on the Internet may differ with respect to neural responses to gaming cues. Behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were recorded from 40 female and 68 male Internet gamers. This study included three components including participation in a pre-gaming cue-craving task, 30 min of online gaming and a post-gaming cue-elicited-craving task. Group differences were examined at pre-gaming, post-gaming and post- vs pre-gaming times. Correlations between brain responses and behavioral performance were calculated. : Gaming-related cues elicited higher cravings in male vs female subjects. Prior to gaming, males demonstrated greater activations in the striatum, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), inferior frontal cortex and bilateral declive. Following gaming, male subjects demonstrated greater activations in the medial frontal gyrus and bilateral middle temporal gyri. In a post-pre comparison, male subjects demonstrated greater thalamic activation than did female subjects. Short-term gaming elicited in males vs females more craving-related activations to gaming cues. These results suggest neural mechanisms for why males may be more vulnerable than females in developing Internet gaming disorder.

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CuesInternetBehavior, AddictiveBrainBrain MappingCravingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleReaction TimeSex CharacteristicsVideo GamesYoung Adult

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PMID30272247
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