Abnormalities of functional brain networks in pathological gambling: A graph-theoretical approach

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Tschernegg, Melanie ^a   Crone, Julia S ^b   Eigenberger, Tina ^b   Schwartenbeck, Philipp ^a,b   Fauth Bühler, Mira ^c   Lemènager, Tagrid ^c   Mann, Karl ^c   Thon, Natasha ^b   Wurst, Friedrich M ^b   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral addiction; Connectivity; fMRI; Graph theory; Network; Pathological gambling; Reward; Small world

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933672676     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00625     Document Type: Article

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