Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls

Excessive gaming can lead to gaming disorder, which affects the function and structure of the brain. In order to diagnose gaming disorders, it is of importance to understand how gaming behavior affects brain activity patterns and whether there exist differences in the effects on different individual...

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Main Authors: Lei Wang, Xutao Ding, Wen Zhang, Shuo Yang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9356585/
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description Excessive gaming can lead to gaming disorder, which affects the function and structure of the brain. In order to diagnose gaming disorders, it is of importance to understand how gaming behavior affects brain activity patterns and whether there exist differences in the effects on different individuals. Electroencephalogram (EEG) microstate reflects a transiently stable brain topological structure with spatiotemporal characteristics, and the spatial characteristic microstate classes and temporal parameters provide insight into the brain’s functional activities in gaming disorders. In order to explore the feasibility of using EEG microstate parameters as markers of gaming addiction, in the present study, resting-state EEG data were acquired before and after playing video game for 30 minutes from 38 participants, containing gaming disorder individual (GD), recreational game users (RGU), and healthy controls (HC). Our study compared the microstate parameters before and after playing game among three groups. According to the results, the resting-state EEG microstate parameters exert no significant difference before playing game among three groups. However, we found significant difference in microstate B and D parameters among three groups after playing game. Additionally, compared with the pre-gaming, the post-gaming data showed that the variation trend of microstate B and D parameters of the three groups was similar. Moreover, these discoveries provide the first causal evidence of a microstate modification following gaming behavior interference, suggesting that microstates B and D are closely associated with gaming behavior, which can be used as EEG markers for distinguishing gaming addiction.
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spelling doaj.art-3a0412bae80544d3b8aa27dc447635772022-12-22T03:12:46ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019325493255810.1109/ACCESS.2021.30601129356585Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy ControlsLei Wang0Xutao Ding1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-8316Wen Zhang2Shuo Yang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-4761State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaExcessive gaming can lead to gaming disorder, which affects the function and structure of the brain. In order to diagnose gaming disorders, it is of importance to understand how gaming behavior affects brain activity patterns and whether there exist differences in the effects on different individuals. Electroencephalogram (EEG) microstate reflects a transiently stable brain topological structure with spatiotemporal characteristics, and the spatial characteristic microstate classes and temporal parameters provide insight into the brain’s functional activities in gaming disorders. In order to explore the feasibility of using EEG microstate parameters as markers of gaming addiction, in the present study, resting-state EEG data were acquired before and after playing video game for 30 minutes from 38 participants, containing gaming disorder individual (GD), recreational game users (RGU), and healthy controls (HC). Our study compared the microstate parameters before and after playing game among three groups. According to the results, the resting-state EEG microstate parameters exert no significant difference before playing game among three groups. However, we found significant difference in microstate B and D parameters among three groups after playing game. Additionally, compared with the pre-gaming, the post-gaming data showed that the variation trend of microstate B and D parameters of the three groups was similar. Moreover, these discoveries provide the first causal evidence of a microstate modification following gaming behavior interference, suggesting that microstates B and D are closely associated with gaming behavior, which can be used as EEG markers for distinguishing gaming addiction.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9356585/Gaming behaviorgaming disordermicrostateresting-state EEG
spellingShingle Lei Wang
Xutao Ding
Wen Zhang
Shuo Yang
Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
IEEE Access
Gaming behavior
gaming disorder
microstate
resting-state EEG
title Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
title_full Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
title_fullStr Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
title_full_unstemmed Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
title_short Differences in EEG Microstate Induced by Gaming: A Comparison Between the Gaming Disorder Individual, Recreational Game Users and Healthy Controls
title_sort differences in eeg microstate induced by gaming a comparison between the gaming disorder individual recreational game users and healthy controls
topic Gaming behavior
gaming disorder
microstate
resting-state EEG
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9356585/
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