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. 2015 Mar 20:9:64.
doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00064. eCollection 2015.

The alteration of gray matter volume and cognitive control in adolescents with internet gaming disorder

Hongmei Wang  1 , Chenwang Jin  1 , Kai Yuan  2 , Tahir Mehmood Shakir  1 , Cuiping Mao  1 , Xuan Niu  1 , Chen Niu  1 , Liping Guo  1 , Ming Zhang  1
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The alteration of gray matter volume and cognitive control in adolescents with internet gaming disorder

Hongmei Wang et al. Front Behav Neurosci. .

Abstract

Objective: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been investigated by many behavioral and neuroimaging studies, for it has became one of the main behavior disorders among adolescents. However, few studies focused on the relationship between alteration of gray matter volume (GMV) and cognitive control feature in IGD adolescents.

Methods: Twenty-eight participants with IAD and twenty-eight healthy age and gender matched controls participated in the study. Brain morphology of adolescents with IGD and healthy controls was investigated using an optimized voxel-based morphometry (VBM) technique. Cognitive control performances were measured by Stroop task, and correlation analysis was performed between brain structural change and behavioral performance in IGD group.

Results: The results showed that GMV of the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), precuneus, supplementary motor area (SMA), superior parietal cortex, left dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), left insula, and bilateral cerebellum decreased in the IGD participants compared with healthy controls. Moreover, GMV of the ACC was negatively correlated with the incongruent response errors of Stroop task in IGD group.

Conclusion: Our results suggest that the alteration of GMV is associated with the performance change of cognitive control in adolescents with IGD, which indicating substantial brain image effects induced by IGD.

Keywords: anterior cingulate cortex; cognitive control; color-word stroop; gray matter; internet addiction disorder.

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(A) IGD group showed reduced gray matter volume (GMV) in the bilateral ACC, precuneus, SMA, superior parietal cortex, cerebellum, left DLPFC and left insula. (B) Correlation between GMV of ACC and Stroop task response errors during incongruent condition in IGD group.
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