The Behavioral and Brain Mechanism of IGD

Summary

This project aims to investigate whether anodal tDCS of dlPFC enhances cognitive regulation over craving an emotions.

Conditions

• Internet Gaming Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Craving behavioral intervention

The CBI was given once a week for 6 weeks, conducted by four therapists. A pair of therapists was randomly assigned to a CBI+ group. Each session included 5 parts in 2.5-3 hours: warming-up exercise, discussion about the homework from the last session, main structured activity, brief summary, and the homework assignment. There were 6 sessions with each focused on a topic: recognize craving and its relationship with IGD; reduce craving through ameliorating the salience of cues and irrational beliefs, withdrawal symptoms and other negative affects; enhance self-monitoring and control for craving through time management training; relieve fulfillment of psychological needs through Internet use and attenuate the relation between craving and gaming behaviors through coping skill training

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Beijing Normal University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• XiaoYi Fang, PhD · Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

• JinTao Zhang, PhD · State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

• CuiCui Xia, MEd · Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

• LinYuan Deng, PhD · Faculty of Education Beijing Normal University

• Lu Liu, BS · Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

• Ben Liu, BSM · State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

• ShanShan Ma, BS · State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

• YuanWei Yao, BS · State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

• Qinxue Liu, PhD · School of Psychology Central China Normal University

• Nan Zhou, MEd · Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

• ShuMeng Hou, MEd · Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-03-31

Primary Completion

2014-12-31

Completion

2015-12-31

Countries

• China

Study Locations