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Diminished Frontal Theta Activity During Gaming in Young Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder

Cognitive control is essential for flexible, top-down, goal-directed behavior. Individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) are characterized by impaired prefrontal cortex function and cognitive control. This results in an increase in stimulus-driven habitual behavior, particularly related to pat...

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Autores principales: Kim, Juri, Park, Jinsick, Park, Young Min, Jang, DongPyo, Namkoong, Kee, Jung, Young-Chul, Kim, In Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31736703
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01183
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author Kim, Juri
Park, Jinsick
Park, Young Min
Jang, DongPyo
Namkoong, Kee
Jung, Young-Chul
Kim, In Young
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Park, Young Min
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description Cognitive control is essential for flexible, top-down, goal-directed behavior. Individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) are characterized by impaired prefrontal cortex function and cognitive control. This results in an increase in stimulus-driven habitual behavior, particularly related to pathological gaming. In the present study, we investigated the electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in individuals with IGD. Twenty-four individuals with IGD and 35 healthy control (HC) subjects were recruited. We analyzed their EEG activity while the subjects played their favorite game (30–40 min duration). We compared the band power between the two groups. During gaming, the left frontal theta, alpha, and beta band activities were lower in subjects with IGD than in HCs. Moreover, the left frontal theta power negatively correlated with IGD severity. These results indicate that left frontal theta power could be used as a neurophysiological biomarker for the detection of diminished cognitive control patterns in individuals with IGD.
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spelling pubmed-68380002019-11-15 Diminished Frontal Theta Activity During Gaming in Young Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder Kim, Juri Park, Jinsick Park, Young Min Jang, DongPyo Namkoong, Kee Jung, Young-Chul Kim, In Young Front Neurosci Neuroscience Cognitive control is essential for flexible, top-down, goal-directed behavior. Individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) are characterized by impaired prefrontal cortex function and cognitive control. This results in an increase in stimulus-driven habitual behavior, particularly related to pathological gaming. In the present study, we investigated the electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in individuals with IGD. Twenty-four individuals with IGD and 35 healthy control (HC) subjects were recruited. We analyzed their EEG activity while the subjects played their favorite game (30–40 min duration). We compared the band power between the two groups. During gaming, the left frontal theta, alpha, and beta band activities were lower in subjects with IGD than in HCs. Moreover, the left frontal theta power negatively correlated with IGD severity. These results indicate that left frontal theta power could be used as a neurophysiological biomarker for the detection of diminished cognitive control patterns in individuals with IGD. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6838000/ /pubmed/31736703 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01183 Text en Copyright © 2019 Kim, Park, Park, Jang, Namkoong, Jung and Kim. 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 Diminished Frontal Theta Activity During Gaming in Young Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder
title_sort diminished frontal theta activity during gaming in young adults with internet gaming disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31736703
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01183
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