Altered reward processing in pathological computer gamers - ERP-results from a semi-natural Gaming-Design

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-23

  Duven, Eva C P ^a   Müller, Kai W ^a   Beutel, Manfred E ^a   Wölfling, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Incentive sensitization; Internet gaming disorder; Pathological computer gaming; Psychophysiological responses; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER GAMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; GAME; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNET ADDICTION; INTERNET ADDICTION TEST; INTERNET GAMING DISORDER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; SENSITIZATION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; ADDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GERMANY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922751288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.293     Document Type: Article

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