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Overview

Guangheng Dong is affiliated with Zhejiang Normal University in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience, with publication counts of 79, 70, and 70 respectively. Within these broad disciplines, their work is particularly focused on cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and education.

The main topics covered in Dong's research include the impact of technology on adolescents, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, digital mental health interventions, child development and digital technology, neural dynamics and brain function, and mind wandering and attention.

Dong has contributed significantly to several academic journals. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Addiction Biology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dong include:

  • The prevalence and possible risk factors of internet gaming disorder among adolescents and young adults: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (2022, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • Considering gender differences in the study and treatment of internet gaming disorder (2022, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • Disrupted prefrontal regulation of striatum-related craving in Internet gaming disorder revealed by dynamic causal modeling: results from a cue-reactivity task (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • Dorsal and ventral striatal functional connectivity shifts play a potential role in internet gaming disorder (2021, Communications Biology)
  • Altered neural processing of negative stimuli in people with internet gaming disorder: fMRI evidence from the comparison with recreational game users (2020, Journal of Affective Disorders)

Throughout their career, Dong has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Min Wang, Haohao Dong, Hui Zheng, Weiran Zhou, and Marc N. Potenza.

Best Publications

  • A cognitive-behavioral model of Internet gaming disorder: Theoretical underpinnings and clinical implications

    Guangheng Dong;Marc N. Potenza

  • Impulse inhibition in people with Internet addiction disorder: electrophysiological evidence from a Go/NoGo study.

    Guangheng Dong;Qilin Lu;Qilin Lu;Hui Zhou;Xuan Zhao

  • Impaired inhibitory control in 'internet addiction disorder': a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Guangheng Dong;Elise E. DeVito;Xiaoxia Du;Zhuoya Cui

  • Enhanced reward sensitivity and decreased loss sensitivity in Internet addicts: An fMRI study during a guessing task

    Guangheng Dong;Jie Huang;Xiaoxia Du

  • Male Internet addicts show impaired executive control ability: evidence from a color-word Stroop task.

    Guangheng Dong;Hui Zhou;Xuan Zhao

  • Cognitive flexibility in internet addicts: fMRI evidence from difficult-to-easy and easy-to-difficult switching situations

    Guangheng Dong;Xiao Lin;Hongli Zhou;Qilin Lu

  • Decreased functional connectivity in an executive control network is related to impaired executive function in Internet gaming disorder

    Guangheng Dong;Xiao Lin;Marc N. Potenza

  • Reward/punishment sensitivities among internet addicts: Implications for their addictive behaviors.

    Guangheng Dong;Yanbo Hu;Xiao Lin

  • Risk-taking and risky decision-making in Internet gaming disorder: Implications regarding online gaming in the setting of negative consequences

    Guangheng Dong;Marc N. Potenza

  • Abnormal gray matter and white matter volume in 'Internet gaming addicts'.

    Xiao Lin;Guangheng Dong;Qiandong Wang;Xiaoxia Du

  • What makes Internet addicts continue playing online even when faced by severe negative consequences? Possible explanations from an fMRI study.

    Guangheng Dong;Yanbo Hu;Xiao Lin;Qilin Lu

  • Cognitive control and reward/loss processing in Internet gaming disorder: Results from a comparison with recreational Internet game-users.

    G. Dong;H. Li;L. Wang;M.N. Potenza

  • Alterations in regional homogeneity of resting-state brain activity in internet gaming addicts

    Guangheng Dong;Jie Huang;Xiaoxia Du

  • Impaired decision-making and impulse control in Internet gaming addicts: evidence from the comparison with recreational Internet game users

    Yifan Wang;Lingdan Wu;Lingxiao Wang;Yifen Zhang

  • Gaming Increases Craving to Gaming-Related Stimuli in Individuals With Internet Gaming Disorder

    Guangheng Dong;Lingxiao Wang;Xiaoxia Du;Marc N. Potenza

  • Gender-related differences in neural responses to gaming cues before and after gaming: implications for gender-specific vulnerabilities to Internet gaming disorder

    Guangheng Dong;Lingxiao Wang;Xiaoxia Du;Marc N Potenza

  • Diffusion tensor imaging reveals thalamus and posterior cingulate cortex abnormalities in internet gaming addicts

    Guangheng Dong;Elise DeVito;Jie Huang;Xiaoxia Du

  • Impaired risk evaluation in people with Internet gaming disorder: fMRI evidence from a probability discounting task.

    Xiao Lin;Hongli Zhou;Guangheng Dong;Xiaoxia Du

  • Gender-related functional connectivity and craving during gaming and immediate abstinence during a mandatory break: Implications for development and progression of internet gaming disorder.

    Guangheng Dong;Guangheng Dong;Ziliang Wang;Yifan Wang;Xiaoxia Du

  • Meta-analyses of the functional neural alterations in subjects with Internet gaming disorder: Similarities and differences across different paradigms.

    Hui Zheng;Yanbo Hu;Ziliang Wang;Min Wang

  • Risk personality traits of Internet addiction: a longitudinal study of Internet-addicted Chinese university students.

    Guangheng Dong;Jiangyang Wang;Xuelong Yang;Hui Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoxia Du
Xiaoxia Du East China Normal University
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
Kai Yuan
Kai Yuan Xidian University
Yu-Feng Zang
Yu-Feng Zang Hangzhou Normal University

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