Decision-making deficits in patients diagnosed with disordered gambling using the Cambridge Gambling task: The effects of substance use disorder comorbidity

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 484-494

  Zois, Evangelos ^a   Kortlang, Noreen ^a   Vollstädt Klein, Sabine ^a   Lemenager, Tagrid ^a   Beutel, Martin ^b   Mann, Karl ^a   Fauth Bühler, Mira ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Kraichtal Kliniken   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral addiction; Cambridge gambling task; Decision making; Disordered gambling; Substance use disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSIS; GAMBLING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84904399729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.231     Document Type: Article

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