Trial reportApplied psychophysiology and biofeedback2026
The Effects of Excessive Arousing Video Gaming on vmHRV During Sleep in Habitual Gamers.
Trial report in Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- From monitoring to intervention: a closed-loop digital health framework for gaming disorder.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
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Abstract
This study examines the impact of highly arousing video gaming compared to passive digital media consumption on vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) and heart rate (HR) during subsequent sleep in healthy young men. Using a randomized, counterbalanced within-subject design, 31 habitual gamers (mean age: 23 years; BMI: 25.68; gaming experience: 8.69 years; daily gaming time: 1.96 h) alternated between two conditions: 120 min of evening video gaming or watching a nature film of equivalent duration, on two consecutive days per condition. Electrocardiogram (ECG) data collected during sleep revealed that while both conditions were associated with an increase in vmHRV, indicative of parasympathetic recovery, this increase was significantly greater following the film condition (RMSSD: t(446.1) = 2.05, p = 0.04; HF-HRV: t(446.1) = 2.00, p = 0.05). The marginal R
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