Publications by authors named "Akos Arato"

Nowadays, the limitless availability to the World Wide Web can lead to general Internet misuse and dependence. Currently, smartphone and social media use belong to the most prevalent Internet-related behavioral addiction forms. However, the neurobiological background of these Internet-related behavioral addictions is not sufficiently explored.

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Background: Although COVID-19 is primarily an acute respiratory infection, 5%-40% of patients develop late and prolonged symptoms with frequent neurological complaints, known as long COVID syndrome. The presentation of the disease suggests that COVID infection may cause functional and/or morphological central nervous system alterations, but studies published in the literature report contradictory findings.

Purpose: To investigate the chronic effects of COVID-19 on cerebral grey matter in a group of young patients without comorbidities, with mild course of COVID infection and no medical complaints at the time of examination.

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Growing literature indicates that problematic Internet use (PIU) and excessive smartphone use (ESU) are associated with breakdown of functional brain networks. The effects of PIU&ESU on emotional face expression (EFE) recognition are not well understood, however behavioural investigations and fMRI studies of different addiction forms indicated the impairment of this function. The Facial Emotion Recognition Paradigm was used to probe cortico-limbic responses during EFE recognition.

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Article Synopsis
  • Spending a lot of time on a task can make people feel tired and less motivated to continue, which affects their ability to think and perform well.
  • Giving rewards to people who are tired can help them feel better and improve their performance on tasks.
  • The study found specific areas in the brain that help with decision-making and motivation, and these areas are important when people feel fatigued but can be activated again with rewards.
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Internet use disorder (IUD) is generally conceptualized as a fast-growing behavioral addiction. Several structural and functional brain alterations have been revealed in this condition, but previous behavioral studies indicated that language systems may also be impaired. We used a silent word generation task to induce brain activation in Broca's area and other parts of the language system.

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The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task (VST) has quickly become the go-to paradigm to investigate this. However, the latest results showed that the confounding results could originate from the shortcomings of the VST.

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Numerous objects and animals could be threatening, and thus, children learn to avoid them early. Spiders and syringes are among the most common targets of fears and phobias of the modern word. However, they are of different origins: while the former is evolutionary relevant, the latter is not.

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