School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Neuropsychologia. 2024 Sep 9;202:108967. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108967. Epub 2024 Aug 3.
Online shopping addiction (OSA) is defined as a behavioral addiction where an individual exhibits an unhealthy and excessive attachment to shopping on the Internet. Since the OSA shown its adverse impacts on individuals' daily life and social functions, it is important to examine the neurobiological underpinnings of OSA that could be used in clinical practice to identify individuals with OSA. The present study addressed this question by employing a connectome-based prediction model approach to predict the OSA tendency of healthy subjects from whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity. The OSA connectome - a set of connections across multiple brain networks that contributed to predict individuals' OSA tendency was identified, including the functional connectivity between the frontal-parietal network (FPN) and cingulo-opercular network (CON) (i.e., positive network), as well as the functional connectivity within default mode network (DMN) and that between FPN and DMN (i.e., negative network). Key nodes that contributed to the prediction model included the middle frontal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex, and inferior temporal gyrus, which have been associated with impulsivity and emotional processing. Notably, this connectome has shown its specific role in predicting OSA by controlling for the influence of general Internet addiction. Moreover, the strength of the negative network mediated the relationship between OSA and impulsivity, highlighting that the negative network underlies the impulsivity characteristic of OSA. Together, these findings advanced our understanding of the neural correlates of OSA and provided a promising framework for diagnosing OSA.
网络购物成瘾(OSA)被定义为一种行为成瘾,个体表现出对互联网购物的不健康和过度依赖。由于 OSA 对个体日常生活和社会功能产生了不良影响,因此研究 OSA 的神经生物学基础对于临床实践中识别 OSA 个体非常重要。本研究通过采用连接组学预测模型方法,从全脑静息态功能连接来预测健康受试者的 OSA 倾向,从而解决了这一问题。OSA 连接组——一组跨越多个大脑网络的连接,有助于预测个体的 OSA 倾向,包括额顶网络(FPN)和扣带回-顶叶网络(CON)之间的功能连接(即正网络),以及默认模式网络(DMN)内和 FPN 与 DMN 之间的功能连接(即负网络)。对预测模型有贡献的关键节点包括额中回、额下回、前扣带皮质和颞下回,这些区域与冲动和情绪处理有关。值得注意的是,该连接组通过控制一般网络成瘾的影响,显示了其在预测 OSA 方面的特定作用。此外,负网络的强度介导了 OSA 和冲动之间的关系,这表明负网络是 OSA 冲动特征的基础。总之,这些发现增进了我们对 OSA 神经相关性的理解,并为诊断 OSA 提供了一个有前途的框架。