title: Cue-induced Behavioral and Neural Changes among Excessive Internet Gamers and Possible Application of Cue Exposure Therapy to Internet Gaming Disorder.
abstract: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) may lead to many negative consequences in everyday life, yet there is currently no effective treatment for IGD. Cue-reactivity paradigm is commonly used to evaluate craving for substance, food, and gambling; cue exposure therapy (CET) is applied to treating substance use disorders (SUDs) and some other psychological disorders such as pathological gambling (PG). However, no study has explored CET's application to the treatment of IGD except two articles having implied that cues' exposure may have therapeutic effect on IGD. This paper reviews studies on cue-induced behavioral and neural changes in excessive Internet gamers, indicating that behavioral and neural mechanisms of IGD mostly overlap with those of SUD. The CET's effects in the treatment of SUDs and PG are also reviewed. We finally propose an optimized CET paradigm, which future studies should consider and investigate as a probable treatment of IGD.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China; School of Foreign Languages, Anhui Jianzhu UniversityHefei, China.
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Yamikani
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ndasauka
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Anhui University Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Jiawen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Li Zhuang
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Junjie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China.
authors.forename: Yifeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China; School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China; Center of Medical Physics and Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China.
authors.forename: Xiaochu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: Internet gaming disorder; cue exposure therapy; cue-induced changes; excessive Internet gamers; mini-review; substance use disorder