FOR 2974

Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders (ACSID)

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the research group (FOR 2974) ‘Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders’ (ACSID). The head of the research group is Prof Dr Matthias Brand. In the transregional research group, colleagues from the UDE work together with colleagues from the universities of Bamberg, Bochum, Gießen, Mainz, Lübeck, Siegen, Ulm and the Hannover Medical School. The aim of the research group is to gain a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological processes involved in the development and maintenance of specific internet use disorders in order to help improve prevention and treatment.

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Contact

Project Management: Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand

Project Coordination: Annica Kessling

Team

FOR2974 - second funding period

funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Project Coordination	Management/Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand Coordination: Annica Kessling
RP1: Comprehensive model-testing across different types of specific Internet-use disorders and other addictive behaviors	Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand
RP2: Reward Value Reduction in Computer Gaming Disorder and Shopping Disorder - Psychological Mechanisms and Proof-of-Concept Study	Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Sabine Steins-Löber, Prof. Dr. Dr. Astrid Müller
RP3: Shift from reward-driven to compulsive behaviours: The role of decreased sensitivity to punishment in computer gaming disorder and pornography use disorder	Principal Investigators: Dr. Stephanie Antons, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark
RP4: Automatic and habitualised stimulus reactivity in computer gaming disorder and pornography use disorder: effects of acute stress and stimulus devaluation on subjective, behavioural, psychophysiological and neural correlates	Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Oliver T. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Martin Diers, Dr. Stephanie Antons
RP5: Everyday stress, attention bias and inhibitory control in shopping and social network use disorder	Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Dr. Astrid Müller, Dr. Elisa Wegmann, Prof. Dr. Oliver Tobias Wolf
RP7: Investigation of in-game craving and game-immanent factors in computer games and online gambling in a semi-natural setting and biofeedback-guided cue exposure training	Principal Investigators: Dr. Klaus Wölfling, Prof. Dr. Sabine Steins- Löber
RP8: Training of emotional working memory and modification of cognitive distortions in social network use disorder and computer gaming disorder	Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Dr. Elisa Wegmann
RP10: Stimulus reactivity and craving in shopping disorder and social network use disorder: neural correlates, attention bias and media-specific aspects	Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark, Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer
RP11: Gender-specific aspects of affective and cognitive mechanisms of computer gaming disorder and pornography use disorder	Principal Investigators: Dr. Silke M. Müller, Prof. Dr. Sabine Steins-Löber, Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer

FOR2974 - first funding period