Neurobiological correlates of problem gambling in a quasi-realistic blackjack scenario as revealed by fMRI

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-173

  Miedl, Stephan F ^a   Fehr, Thorsten ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; fMRI; Gambling; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76749152809     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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