A Reduction in Video Gaming Time Produced a Decrease in Brain Activity

This study examines whether a decrease in brain development is observable after players have reduced their video gaming time over a period of 1 year. Both video gaming experts and non-experts were recruited, whose resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) data were collected at the beginning and the end o...

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Autores principales: Gong, Diankun, Yao, Yutong, Gan, Xianyang, Peng, Yurui, Ma, Weiyi, Yao, Dezhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057383
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00134
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author Gong, Diankun
Yao, Yutong
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Ma, Weiyi
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description This study examines whether a decrease in brain development is observable after players have reduced their video gaming time over a period of 1 year. Both video gaming experts and non-experts were recruited, whose resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) data were collected at the beginning and the end of the study. Immediately after the first scan, the participants were instructed to spend no more than 3 h on video gaming weekly for 1 year. The results showed decreased self-reported video gaming skills and decreased amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) in the experts at the end of the study, demonstrating that a reduction in video gaming time over a period of 1 year produced a decrease in brain development. The non-experts served as a control group and had no significant changes. The findings support the adaptive effect of video gaming experience on brain and cognitive development.
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spelling pubmed-64787062019-05-03 A Reduction in Video Gaming Time Produced a Decrease in Brain Activity Gong, Diankun Yao, Yutong Gan, Xianyang Peng, Yurui Ma, Weiyi Yao, Dezhong Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience This study examines whether a decrease in brain development is observable after players have reduced their video gaming time over a period of 1 year. Both video gaming experts and non-experts were recruited, whose resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) data were collected at the beginning and the end of the study. Immediately after the first scan, the participants were instructed to spend no more than 3 h on video gaming weekly for 1 year. The results showed decreased self-reported video gaming skills and decreased amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) in the experts at the end of the study, demonstrating that a reduction in video gaming time over a period of 1 year produced a decrease in brain development. The non-experts served as a control group and had no significant changes. The findings support the adaptive effect of video gaming experience on brain and cognitive development. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6478706/ /pubmed/31057383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00134 Text en Copyright © 2019 Gong, Yao, Gan, Peng, Ma and Yao. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short A Reduction in Video Gaming Time Produced a Decrease in Brain Activity
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topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057383
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00134
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