ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2020
Aberrant posterior superior temporal sulcus functional connectivity and executive dysfunction in adolescents with internet gaming disorder.
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- Stress and Psychosocial Distress Scale with Blunted Oscillatory Dynamics Serving Abstract Reasoning.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Explicit and implicit effects of gaming content on social media on the behavior of young adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Functional connectivity changes in the brain of adolescents with internet addiction: A systematic literature review of imaging studies.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- The Effects of Digital Addiction on Brain Function and Structure of Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Neural correlates of negative life events and their relationships with alcohol and cannabis use initiation.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Independent component analysis for internet gaming disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Review
- Longitudinal relationships between school assets, traditional bullying, and internet gaming disorder: the role of self-control and intentional self-regulation among Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Graph analysis of diffusion tensor imaging-based connectome in young men with internet gaming disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cumulative Family Risk and Internet Gaming Disorder Among Adolescents: A Serial Mediating Model of Personal Growth Initiative and Gratitude.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsThe clinical significance of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is spreading worldwide, but its underlying neural mechanism still remains unclear. Moreover, the prevalence of IGD seems to be the highest in adolescents whose brains are in development. This study investigated the functional connectivity between large-scale intrinsic networks including default mode network, executive control network, and salience network. We hypothesized that adolescents with IGD would demonstrate different functional connectivity patterns among large-scale intrinsic networks, implying neurodevelopmental alterations, which might be associated with executive dysfunction.
methodsThis study included 17 male adolescents with Internet gaming disorder, and 18 age-matched male adolescents as healthy controls. Functional connectivity was examined using seed-to-voxel analysis and seed-to-seed analysis, with the nodes of large-scale intrinsic networks used as region of interests. Group independent component analysis was performed to investigate spatially independent network.
resultsWe identified aberrant functional connectivity of salience network and default mode network with the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) in adolescents with IGD. Furthermore, functional connectivity between salience network and pSTS correlated with proneness to Internet addiction and self-reported cognitive problems. Independent component analysis revealed that pSTS was involved in social brain network. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsThe results imply that aberrant functional connectivity of social brain network with default mode network and salience network was identified in IGD that may be associated with executive dysfunction. Our results suggest that inordinate social stimuli during excessive online gaming leads to altered connections among large-scale networks during neurodevelopment of adolescents.
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