ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2020
More stringent criteria are needed for diagnosing internet gaming disorder: Evidence from regional brain features and whole-brain functional connectivity multivariate pattern analyses.
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- The role of the cerebellum in internet gaming disorder-A systematic review.Addiction biology · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation Among Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Connectome-based predictive modelling of problematic gaming in youth from the ABCD study.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Gaming disorder in the ICD-11: the state of the game.BMC psychiatry · 2025Review
- Mindfulness meditation reduces symptoms and modulates neural circuitry in comorbid internet gaming disorder and depression.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Functional connectivity-related changes underlying mindfulness meditation for internet gaming disorder: a randomized clinical trial.Npj mental health research · 2025Article
- Transformative Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Executive and Default Mode Networks in Internet Gaming Disorder.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Biomarkers of Internet Gaming Disorder-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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- Addressing cortex dysregulation in youth through brain health check coaching and prophylactic brain development.INNOSC theranostics & pharmacological sciences · 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
- Validation of the Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and its association with functional impairment in Brazilian gamers.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Association between gaming disorder and regional homogeneity in highly involved male adult gamers: A pilot resting-state fMRI study.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Independent component analysis for internet gaming disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Review
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundInternet gaming disorder (IGD) is included in the DSM-5 as a provisional diagnosis. Whether IGD should be regarded as a disorder and, if so, how it should be defined and thresholded have generated considerable debate.
methodsIn the current study, machine learning was used, based on regional and interregional brain features. Resting-state data from 374 subjects (including 148 IGD subjects with DSM-5 scores ≥5 and 93 IGD subjects with DSM-5 scores ≥6) were collected, and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) was employed to classify IGD from recreational game use (RGU) subjects based on regional brain features (ReHo) and communication between brain regions (functional connectivity; FC). Permutation tests were used to assess classifier performance.
resultsThe results demonstrated that when using DSM-5 scores ≥5 as the inclusion criteria for IGD subjects, MVPA could not differentiate IGD subjects from RGU, whether based on ReHo or FC features or by using different templates. MVPA could differentiate IGD subjects from RGU better than expected by chance when using DSM-5 scores ≥6 with both ReHo and FC features. The brain regions involved in the default mode network and executive control network and the cerebellum exhibited high discriminative power during classification. DISCUSSION: The current findings challenge the current IGD diagnostic criteria thresholding proposed in the DSM-5, suggesting that more stringent criteria may be needed for diagnosing IGD. The findings suggest that brain regions involved in the default mode network and executive control network relate importantly to the core criteria for IGD.
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