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Jung Seok Choi

Jung Seok Choi

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Psychology
Korea
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
9422
World Ranking
4270
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Jung Seok Choi is affiliated with Samsung Medical Center in South Korea. Their research spans key areas in neuroscience, social sciences, and psychology, with a notable focus on the impact of technology on adolescent behavior and mental health. Their work frequently investigates the neural and psychological underpinnings of digital technology use and its effects on cognitive and clinical outcomes.

Their major fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these broad fields, the subfields of cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and education form significant parts of their research portfolio.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Mind Wandering and Attention
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Jung Seok Choi has published extensively, with frequent contributions in several academic journals. The prominent publication venues they often appear in are:

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Korean-Chinese Social Science Studies
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Identification of Major Psychiatric Disorders From Resting-State Electroencephalography Using a Machine Learning Approach, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Problematic Use of Alcohol and Online Gaming as Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Review, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Associations of personality and clinical characteristics with excessive Internet and smartphone use in adolescents: A structural equation modeling approach, 2020, Addictive Behaviors
  • Event-related brain response to visual cues in individuals with Internet gaming disorder: relevance to attentional bias and decision-making, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Altered core networks of brain connectivity and personality traits in internet gaming disorder, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Collaboration plays an important role in their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • So Young Yoo
  • Minkyung Park
  • Dai-Jin Kim
  • Jiyoon Lee
  • Sun Ju Chung

Best Publications

  • Comparison of risk and protective factors associated with smartphone addiction and Internet addiction

    Sam Wook Choi;Dai Jin Kim;Jung Seok Choi;Heejune Ahn

  • Latent class analysis on internet and smartphone addiction in college students.

    Jung-Yeon Mok;Sam-Wook Choi;Dai-Jin Kim;Jung-Seok Choi

  • Impulsivity in Internet Addiction: A Comparison with Pathological Gambling

    Hae Woo Lee;Jung-Seok Choi;Young-Chul Shin;Jun-Young Lee

  • Characteristics and Psychiatric Symptoms of Internet Gaming Disorder among Adults Using Self-Reported DSM-5 Criteria.

    Na Ri Kim;Samuel Suk Hyun Hwang;Jung Seok Choi;Dai Jin Kim

  • Clinical Characteristics of Diagnosis for Internet Gaming Disorder: Comparison of DSM-5 IGD and ICD-11 GD Diagnosis

    Yeong Seon Jo;Soo Young Bhang;Jung Seok Choi;Hae Kook Lee

  • Similarities and differences among Internet gaming disorder, gambling disorder and alcohol use disorder: A focus on impulsivity and compulsivity

    Sam-Wook Choi;Hyun Soo Kim;Ga-Young Kim;Yeongju Jeon

  • Weight Management Program for Treatment-Emergent Weight Gain in Olanzapine-Treated Patients With Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder: A 12-Week Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

    Jun Soo Kwon;Jung Seok Choi;Won Myoung Bahk;Chang Yoon Kim

  • Resting-state beta and gamma activity in Internet addiction

    Jung-Seok Choi;Su Mi Park;Jaewon Lee;Jae Yeon Hwang

  • Left anterior subregion of orbitofrontal cortex volume reduction and impaired organizational strategies in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Jung Seok Choi;Do Hyung Kang;Jae Jin Kim;Tae Hyun Ha

  • Cortical Thickness Reduction in Individuals at Ultra-High-Risk for Psychosis

    Wi Hoon Jung;June Sic Kim;Joon Hwan Jang;Jung Seok Choi

  • Altered resting-state connectivity in subjects at ultra-high risk for psychosis: an fMRI study

    Geumsook Shim;Jungsu S. Oh;Wi Hoon Jung;Joon Hwan Jang

  • Dysfunctional inhibitory control and impulsivity in Internet addiction

    Jung Seok Choi;Su Mi Park;Myoung Sun Roh;Jun Young Lee

  • Functional connectivity in fronto-subcortical circuitry during the resting state in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Joon Hwan Jang;Jae Hun Kim;Wi Hoon Jung;Jung Seok Choi

  • Voxel-Based Morphometry Study of Gray Matter Abnormalities in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    So Young Yoo;Myoung-Sun Roh;Jung-Seok Choi;Do-Hyung Kang

  • Neuroimaging in obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Jun Soo Kwon;Joon Hwan Jang;Jung-Seok Choi;Do-Hyung Kang

  • Altered brain activity during reward anticipation in pathological gambling and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Jung-Seok Choi;Young-Chul Shin;Wi Hoon Jung;Joon Hwan Jang

  • Volumetric Investigation of the Frontal-Subcortical Circuitry in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Do Hyung Kang;Jae Jin Kim;Jung Seok Choi;Young Il Kim

  • Association of the Glutamate Transporter Gene SLC1A1 With Atypical Antipsychotics-Induced Obsessive-compulsive Symptoms

    Jun Soo Kwon;Yeon Ho Joo;Hee Jung Nam;Meerae Lim

  • Reduced prefrontal functional connectivity in the default mode network is related to greater psychopathology in subjects with high genetic loading for schizophrenia

    Joon Hwan Jang;Wi Hoon Jung;Jung Seok Choi;Chi Hoon Choi

  • Neural correlates of altered response inhibition and dysfunctional connectivity at rest in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Do Hyung Kang;Joon Hwan Jang;Ji Yeon Han;Jae Hun Kim

  • Pre-Attentive Auditory Processing in Ultra-High-Risk for Schizophrenia with Magnetoencephalography

    Kyung Soon Shin;June Sic Kim;Do-Hyung Kang;Yuri Koh

Frequent Co-Authors

Wi Hoon Jung
Wi Hoon Jung University of Pennsylvania
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Cecilia Cheng
Cecilia Cheng University of Hong Kong
Douglas A. Gentile
Douglas A. Gentile Iowa State University
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Zsolt Demetrovics
Zsolt Demetrovics Flinders University
Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University

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