What motivates gambling behavior? Insight into dopamine's role

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Anselme, Patrick ^a   Robinson, Mike J F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Gambling; Loss; Motivation; Reward uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONDITIONING; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); DOPAMINE RELEASE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GAMBLING; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MONEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 84889675189     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00182     Document Type: Article

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