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Maladaptive neurovisceral interactions in patients with Internet gaming disorder: A study of heart rate variability and functional neural connectivity using the graph theory approach.
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- Cardiology and Neurophysiological Stimulation of Internet Gaming Disorders: A Systematic Review.Current cardiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
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- Facial expression analysis and machine learning for objective assessment of alcohol craving in alcohol use disorder: a study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Physiological Regularity and Synchrony in Individuals with Gaming Disorder.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Biomarkers of Internet Gaming Disorder-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Altered Heart Rate Variability During Mobile Game Playing and Watching Self-Mobile Gaming in Individuals with Problematic Mobile Game Use: Implications for Cardiac Health.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Heart Rate Variability during Online Video Game Playing in Habitual Gamers: Effects of Internet Addiction Scale, Ranking Score and Gaming Performance.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Severity identification for internet gaming disorder using heart rate variability reactivity for gaming cues: a deep learning approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Resting-state heart rate variability, level of stress and resilience in internet gaming disorder and alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- More stringent criteria are needed for diagnosing internet gaming disorder: Evidence from regional brain features and whole-brain functional connectivity multivariate pattern analyses.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Article
- Maladaptive neurovisceral interactions in patients with Internet gaming disorder: A study of heart rate variability and functional neural connectivity using the graph theory approach.Addiction biology · 2020Article
- Heart Rate Variability Reactivity Moderates the Indirect Link Between Child Maltreatment and Young Adult Alcohol Use Problems Via Depressive Symptoms.The American journal on addictions · 2020Article
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Abstract
Heart rate variability (HRV) can be used to represent the regulatory adaptive system and is a proxy for neurovisceral integration. Consistent with the view that, like other addictions, Internet gaming disorder (IGD) involves disrupted regulatory function, the present study hypothesized that IGD patients would show (a) decreased HRV, (b) ineffective functional neural connectivity, and (c) differential patterns of association between HRV and functional neural connectivity relative to healthy controls (HCs). The present study included 111 young adults (53 IGD patients and 58 age- and sex-matched HCs) who underwent simultaneous recordings with an electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram during a resting state. Heart rate (HR), HRV, and functional neural connectivity were calculated using the graph theory approach. Compared with the HCs, the IGD patients exhibited elevated HR and decreased HRV based on the high frequency (HF), which reflects suppression of parasympathetic and/or vagal tone. The IGD patients also exhibited a heightened theta band characteristic path length (CPL) compared with HCs, indicating decreased efficacy of the functional network. Furthermore, IGD patients exhibited negative correlations between the standard deviation of the normal-to-normal interval index (SDNNi) and theta and delta CPL values, which were not observed in HCs. In conclusion, the present findings suggest that IGD patients might have maladaptive brain-body integration features involving disruptions of the autonomic nervous system and brain function.
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