Gender-related differences in neural responses to gaming cues before and after gaming: implications for gender-specific vulnerabilities to Internet gaming disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

More males than females play video games and develop problems with gaming. However, little is known regarding how males and females who game on the Internet may differ with respect to neural responses to gaming cues. Behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were recorded from 40 female and 68 male Internet gamers. This study included three components including participation in a pre-gaming cue-craving task, 30 min of online gaming and a post-gaming cue-elicited-craving task. Group differences were examined at pre-gaming, post-gaming and post- vs pre-gaming times. Correlations between brain responses and behavioral performance were calculated. : Gaming-related cues elicited higher cravings in male vs female subjects. Prior to gaming, males demonst

SUBMITTER: Dong G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234325 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature