Brain Circuits Identify High-Risk Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents

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Researchers discovered two distinct brain-based subtypes of Internet Gaming Disorder risk linked to specific brain connectivity patterns related to impulsivity. Here’s what matters: over two years, high-risk youth developed IGD at 23.61% versus just 6.76% in low-risk peers. That gap opens the door to genuine early neurobiological risk identification.

Original paper: Risk classification of internet gaming disorder based on neurobiological subtyping from impulsivity-linked resting-state functional connectivity: a longitudinal design study. — BMC medicine. 10.1186/s12916-026-04825-9

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