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Pathological Choice: The Neuroscience of Gambling and Gambling Addiction
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Gambling is pertinent to neuroscience research for at least two reasons. First, gambling is a naturalistic and pervasive example of risky decision making, and thus gambling games can provide a paradigm for the investigation of human choice behavior and "irrationality." Second, excessive gambling involvement (i.e., pathological gambling) is currently conceptualized as a behavioral addiction, and research on this condition may provide insights into addictive mechanisms in the absence of exogenous drug effects. This article is a summary of topics covered in a Society for Neuroscience minisymposium, focusing on recent advances in understanding the neural basis of gambling behavior, including translational findings in rodents and nonhuman primates, which have begun to delineate neural circuitry and neurochemistry involved.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Clark, L., Averbeck, B., Payer, D., Sescousse, G., Winstanley, C. A., & Xue, G.
- Affiliations
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CA)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-11-06
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 45
- Pages
- 17617-17623
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC3858640
- OpenAlex
- W2063314147
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 8.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre
- Michael Smith Health Research BC
- Parkinson Society Canada
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31130025)
- National Institutes of Health
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR/IRSC 258458)
- Medical Research Council (G1100554)
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- gambling addiction, risky decision making, behavioral addiction, neural circuits, neurochemistry, irrationality, rodents, non-human primates
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Choice Behavior, Gambling, Humans, Motivation, Nerve Net, Neurons, Reward, Behavior, Addictive
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