“Brains of Game Addicts Same as Brains of Drug Addicts”

Hi my name is anon and im an RPG addict.

What the fuck is good on mmo?
I love JRPG. Yes, I LOVE turns battle.

But at MMORPG, it have lags.
in Lunia, when I was playng in first stage...
I had same reaction of Jean Pierre Polnareff when I was smashed by the rocks when I thougth I had scaped of them.

Second problem is other players.
Oh fuck, the only thing what they can talk about is only about the game itself!?
And why the fuck I have to worry about the relationship with other gameplayers!?
Im not interested in orkut or facebook!
I want to play RPG!!

It's pretty radical but any game turns shitty when it is mmo.

Well gameing like drugs smoking drink can becoem an addiction, I my self played tbh far too much when i was in school, first year of college I didnt do wonderfuly well because I was playing games not gettin the work done.

That's great.
...I wonder what the brain of shopping addicts looks like then.

MMOGs are shit. Every single one I've played was trash; especially Korean-made ones and World of Warcraft. More like highly interactive chat rooms for autistics and people with OCD than games.

just like games have different degrees of being a drug :)
and for many mmorpg's are at the top

stopping an mmorpg and going back to your previous game can then just make u lose all interest in games :)

I think it´s just the "addicted" thing what make them look almost the same.

this is BS and mis-leading!!! This article or the Neuro-Scientists need to elaborate more. Anyway, neither do I play MMO nor consume drugs. ;]

Yes now the police can invade your home searching for addictive substances, they'll get the warrant because they have a good suspicion you do own the said item. Imagine sneaking a console across the border in the dead of night.

Game = Drugs lolwut
Those drug addicts might as well play games
They don't come with the second effect of killing you
But may be influenced by the games and kill others

Eh, I thought gaming helps one to improve their alertness or something. In my country they said gaming is good for the mind because you can learn to react quickly

In other news, brains look like brains.

Some friends and I get together, network our computers together in one of our houses, and play first-person shooters about four times a year.

We start at 11:00AM on a Saturday, and play for about 12 hours.

I've noticed that there's something wrong with my brain. I can't seem to focus on the game like the other guys do.

Every few hours or so, I have to get up, stretch, take a break, go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, go play with the dog, get something to eat...

/sarcasm/
Computer gaming has obviously destroyed my ability to concentrate!
/end sarcasm/

http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/seeking-pleasure-food-sex-music-university-of-oxford/

as seen on http://jeuxvideo.fluctuat.net/blog/41391-recherche-bullshit-la-similarite-cerebrale-entre-drogue-et-gamer.html

Yeah, Korean are dumb

Wonder what it would show for a Drug Addicted Gamer?

I smoke weed every day because of my medical need for it (legal :) ) but its crazy cause I totally understand how these two things have correlations. I used to play games ALWAYS. now I smoke weed ALWAYS and play games sometime. and djing has taken up a part of my life.
so yeah... peace... =_=

how can they say that as the dots have that distance between them in the planar axis, what about the 3D position ?
What if it is not the addiction but pleasure or something else.
Plus, those 2 brains look way too diferent. It's kind of comparing a monkey and a dog

Damn! How does one cure this illness I suffer from?

I can imagine it now:
"Quickly, flush the games down the toilet; there's a cop at the door!"

This kind of research has been around for quite a while already. I remember telling a story about to my friends like 8-9 years ago.

I know a cure for online game addiction - P&P RPGs!

"In other news, cynical researchers comparing the brains of medical researchers and politicians claim the same parts of the brain are affected in both cases, an insight which will come as little surprise to anyone familiar with thinking."

Korea, oh you....

If you look closely you can see the activity levels are measured on different vertical levels of the brain. This hardly proves anything i'd say, just because it's roughly in the same area wouldn't make it the same pattern.

Wow are you serious...o_O? Playing games will be in actual Medical condition, that's some bullshit. Cocaine damages those parts of the brain. "The Korean research team used PET scans to analyse brain activity, and found the “game addicts” to have elevated activity in the areas such the orbitofrontal cortex and caudate nucleus"

Think about this for a sec - The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a prefrontal cortex region in the frontal lobes in the brain which is involved in the cognitive processing of decision-making. - The caudate nucleus is an important part of the brain's learning and memory system. So if these parts of the brain are " elevated " then are we actually working out those parts of the brain by playing MMORPG's? Isn't working out our brain a good thing?

Erm...doesn't this kind of apply to any addiction?

addiction affects the one part of your brain, food,sex,games,drugs. wow great reserch

my poor brain!!!! xD

I am a game addict, and I'm completing a PhD in Bioengineering, can you find me a drug addict that can say the same?

Actually any kind of addiction(alcohol,drugs,pain meds,games...etc) would show on the same part of the brain which is the addiction center shown in the PET scan above. And that's not a recently discovered fact.

Comparing a Drug Addiction to Game Addiction.For some reason I guess I can be a one of the few who admits I am have a Game Addiction.

If you want to say that we kill people,rob,rape and give handjobs just to play World of Warcraft then by all means go ahead lable us as such.

i wonder if the brain of moral fag and nazifemenize have the same pattern? i mean they couldnt stop to demonize game, anime and other stuff, even if they want to

Well, at least online gaming is cheaper than drugs.

YAY! So that means I can take heroin and when I don't have enough money for it, I get little crisis, but everything is just fine??? COOL!!!
*WoW experience*

Gaming is not an illness, whatever is not completely normal, you find it like an illness... OMG! There are gamers and idiots who have no life or brain, so play all day.. and that's it!

I laughed. I study medicine and believe me, that's bullshit.

It's just some propaganda made up so that they could have something in their hands when arguing with game addicts.

Drugs are toxins which physically destroy your brain cells and affect your body, where as gaming can only give you exhaustion.

scientifically, marching in a big group can trigger the same responses as cocaine so I wouldnt worry too much about the gamers

So now any enjoyable activity or hobby (let's just ignore drugs) is considered an addiction huh?

I'm betting 8 hour jobs for 6 days a week will never be considered an addiction aslong as it fills your funds, amirite government?