ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2020
Altered core networks of brain connectivity and personality traits in internet gaming disorder.
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- Efficacy and Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation Among Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Neural Correlates of Personality Traits in Adolescents Exhibiting Excessive Smartphone Use: A Resting-State FMRI Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mindfulness meditation reduces symptoms and modulates neural circuitry in comorbid internet gaming disorder and depression.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Gaming disorder: Neural mechanisms and ongoing debates.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Review
- Prefrontal cortex responses to game rewards and losses in individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder: Insights from fNIRS during mobile gameplay.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Disrupted functional network topology mediates the correlation between childhood trauma and aggression in youths with internet gaming disorder.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Alterations of gray matter asymmetry in internet gaming disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ten years of research on the treatments of internet gaming disorder: A scoping review and directions for future research.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Potential Biological Markers and Treatment Implications for Binge Eating Disorder and Behavioral Addictions.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Biopsychosocial factors of gaming disorder: a systematic review employing screening tools with well-defined psychometric properties.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Independent component analysis for internet gaming disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Review
- Graph analysis of diffusion tensor imaging-based connectome in young men with internet gaming disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsAlthough the Internet has provided convenience and efficiency in many areas of everyday life, problems stemming from Internet use have also been identified, such as Internet gaming disorder (IGD). Internet addiction, which includes IGD, can be viewed as a behavioral addiction or impulse control disorder. This study investigated the altered functional and effective connectivity of the core brain networks in individuals with IGD compared to healthy controls (HCs).
methodsForty-five adults with IGD and 45 HCs were included in this study. To examine the brain networks related to personality traits that influence problematic online gaming, the left and right central executive network (CEN) and the salience network (SN) were included in the analysis. Also, to examine changes in major brain network topographies, we analyzed the default mode network (DMN).
resultsIGD participants showed lower functional connectivity between the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and other regions in the CEN than HC participants during resting state. Also, IGD participants revealed reduced functional connectivity between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and other regions in the SN and lower functional connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the anterior DMN. Notably, in IGD individuals but not HC individuals, there was a positive correlation between IGD severity and effective connectivity and a positive correlation between reward sensitivity and effective connectivity within the ventral striatum of the SN.
conclusionsProblematic online gaming was associated with neurofunctional alterations, impairing the capacity of core brain networks.
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