More stringent criteria are needed for diagnosing internet gaming disorder: Evidence from regional brain features and whole-brain functional connectivity multivariate pattern analyses.

Journal: Journal of behavioral addictions
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is included in the DSM-5 as a provisional diagnosis. Whether IGD should be regarded as a disorder and, if so, how it should be defined and thresholded have generated considerable debate.

Authors

  • Guang-Heng Dong
    Department of Psychology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province 650500, China.
  • Ziliang Wang
    4School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China.
  • Haohao Dong
    5Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, PR China.
  • Min Wang
    National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Ecological Treatment Technology for Urban Water Pollution, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China.
  • Yanbin Zheng
    1Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PR China.
  • Shuer Ye
    Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway.
  • Jialin Zhang
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China.
  • Marc N Potenza
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.