Getting a grip on problem gambling: What can neuroscience tell us?

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Goudriaan, Anna E ^a   Yücel, Murat ^b   van Holst, Ruth J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addictive behaviors; Cue reactivity; Disordered gambling; Impulsivity; Pathological gambling; Response inhibition; Review; Reward sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMANTINE;

ADDICTION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MONEY; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM GAMBLING; REVIEW; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84901254672     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00141     Document Type: Review

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