Problem gamblers exhibit reward hypersensitivity in medial frontal cortex during gambling

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3768-3775

  Oberg, Scott A K ^a   Christie, Gregory J ^b   Tata, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addiction; FRN; Frontal cortex; Gambling; Reward; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMBLING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755176878     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.037     Document Type: Article

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