Neuronal and psychological underpinnings of pathological gambling

Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Jul 1:8:230. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00230. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Bryan F Singer¹, Patrick Anselme², Mike J F Robinson³, Paul Vezina⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
² Department of Psychology, The University of Liège Liège, Belgium.
³ Psychology Department, Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: addiction; conditioning (psychology); dopamine; gambling; reward; stress; uncertainty; ventral striatum.

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