Video Game-Brain Functioning Reversibility Study

Summary

1. Young adults who are exposed to 7-10 days of play of violent video games will show reduced activation in certain regions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex.
2. Young adults who are exposed to 7-10 days of violent video games will show increased activation in regions of the amygdala.
3. Young adults who abstain from violent video games for a week, after 7-10 days of play of violent video games, will show increased activation of regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex and decreased activation of the amygdala, on pre-post fMRI and compared to young adults who continue to play violent video games.
4. Young adults who complete a computerized attention-training program after 7-10 days of violent video games will show increased activation of regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex and decreased activation of the amygdala, on pre-post fMRI and compared to young adults who continue to play violent video games.

Conditions

• Brain Functioning and Violent Video Game Play

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Control group with no video game play

Subjects will abstain from all video game play during study participation.

BEHAVIORAL

control 2

Subjects will play 1 week of violent video game play followed by 1 week of no video game play.

BEHAVIORAL

VG1 group (2 weeks of violent video game play)

Subjects will play a violent video game for 2 weeks of study participation.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Training

Subjects will play a violent video game for 1 week followed by 1 week of Cognitive Training program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Center for Successful Parenting Video Research Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Indiana University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Vincent P Mathews, MD · Indiana University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

29 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-07-31

Primary Completion

2011-03-31

Completion

2018-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations