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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 147-148Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn1378
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By analogy to drug dependence, it has been speculated that the underlying pathology in pathological gambling is a reduction in the sensitivity of the reward system. Studying pathological gamblers and controls during a guessing game using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we observed a reduction of ventral striatal and ventromedial prefrontal activation in the pathological gamblers that was negatively correlated with gambling severity, linking hypoactivation of these areas to disease severity.
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