Pathological gambling and alcohol dependence: Neural disturbances in reward and loss avoidance processing

Addiction Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 557-569

  Romanczuk Seiferth, Nina ^a   Koehler, Saskia ^a,b   Dreesen, Caspar ^a   Wüstenberg, Torsten ^a   Heinz, Andreas ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; alcohol; medial prefrontal cortex; pathological gambling; reward; ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VENTRAL STRIATUM;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; VENTRAL STRIATUM;

EID: 84926527666     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12144     Document Type: Article

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