Higher levels of (Internet) Gaming Disorder symptoms according to the WHO and APA frameworks associate with lower striatal volume
| Autor: | Xinqi Zhou, Yuanshu Chen, Juan Kou, Christian Montag, Renjing Wu, Keith M. Kendrick, Benjamin Becker, Congcong Liu, Dezhong Yao, Halley M. Pontes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Exploratory research 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) World Health Organization DSM-5 Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuroplasticity medicine Humans Association (psychology) Societies Medical media_common medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Addiction Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Diagnostic classification Corpus Striatum 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology The Internet 0305 other medical science Psychology business Internet Addiction Disorder Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 9:598-605 |
| ISSN: | 2063-5303 2062-5871 |
| DOI: | 10.1556/2006.2020.00066 |
| Popis: | Background and aimsGrowing concerns about the addictive nature of Internet and computer games led to the preliminary recognition of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) as an emerging disorder by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the official recognition of Gaming Disorder (GD) as a new diagnosis by the World Health Organization (WHO). While the definition of clear diagnostic criteria for (I)GD represents an important step for diagnosis and treatment of the disorder, potential neurobiological correlates of the criteria remain to be explored.MethodsThe present study employed a dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) approach to determine associations between (I)GD symptom-load according to the APA and WHO diagnostic frameworks and brain structure in a comparably large sample of n = 82 healthy subjects.ResultsHigher symptom-load on both, the APA and WHO diagnostic frameworks convergently associated with lower volumes of the striatum.DiscussionThe results from this exploratory study provide the first initial evidence for a neurobiological foundation of the proposed diagnostic criteria for (I)GD according to both diagnostic classification systems and suggest that the transition from non-disordered to disordered gaming may be accompanied by progressive neuroplastic changes in the striatum, thus resembling progressive changes in other addictive disorders.ConclusionsThe proposed (I)GD criteria in both diagnostic systems were associated with neurostructural alterations in the striatum, suggesting an association with progressive changes in the motivational systems of the brain. |
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