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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Jan 25;46(4):507–515. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.01.004

Table 3.

Regional comparison of gray matter volume between patients with on-line game addiction (POGA), pro-gamer, and healthy comparison subjects.

Talairach
κ E t p value Regions
x y z
Patients with on-line game addiction vs Healthy comparison subjects
Patients with on-line game addiction > Healthy comparison subjects
−20 −29 2 1527 4.25 puncorrected < 0.0001 left thalamus
−37 −60 35 602 4.60 puncorrected < 0.0001 left parietal angular gyrus BA39
Patients with on-line game addiction < Healthy comparison subjects
59 −38 −19 2421 6.45 PFDR-corr = 0.001 right inferior temporal gyrus, BA 20
48 −71 −5 1146 5.75 PFDR-corr = 0.001 right middle occipital gyrus, BA 19
−44 −76 −4 2067 4.15 PFDR-corr = 0.002 left inferior occipital gyrus, BA 19
−47 −55 −10 703 4.06 PFDR-corr = 0.002 left temporal fusiform gyrus, BA 37
−57 −27 −21 1056 3.94 PFDR-corr = 0.002 left inferior temporal gyrus, BA20
Pro-gamers vs healthy comparison subjects
Pro-gamers > healthy comparison subjects
−18 11 35 461 6.83 PFDR-corr = 0.02 left cingulate gyrus, BA 32
−3 5 31 1247 4.57 puncorrected < 0.0001 left cingulate gyrus, BA 24
23 −8 43 743 4.21 puncorrected < 0.0001 right middle frontal gyrus, BA 6
Pro-gamers < healthy comparison subjects
−46 −82 −1 4123 7.90 PFDR-corr < 0.001 left middle occipital gyrus, BA 19
−62 −34 −10 2486 4.94 PFDR-corr = 0.003 left middle temporal gyrus, BA21
50 −74 −1 3580 7.35 PFDR-corr < 0.001 right inferior temporal gyrus, BA 19
Pro-gamer vs Patients with on-line game addiction
Pro-gamer > Patients with on-line game addiction
−3 6 31 3310 5.09 PFDR-corr = 0.02 left cingulate gyrus, BA 24
Pro-gamer < Patients with on-line game addiction
−18 −26 11 2550 4.67 puncorrected < 0.0001 left thalamus

PFDR-corr: corrected FDR<0.05, puncorrected: uncorrected.