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This volume describes recent research on gambling disorder as a behavioural addiction using an array of contemporary tools including structural and functional brain imaging, and neurocognitive assessment.
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1. Introduction: The neuroscience and neuropsychology of gambling and gambling addiction 2. Negative interpersonal scenes decrease inhibitory control in healthy individuals but not in gambling disorder patients 3. Regional grey matter volume correlates of gambling disorder, gamblingrelated cognitive distortions, and emotion-driven impulsivity 4. The Rat Gambling Task as a model for the preclinical development of treatments for gambling disorder 5. Connectivity networks in gambling disorder: a resting-state fMRI study 6. Amygdala grey matter volume increase in gambling disorder with depression symptoms of clinical relevance: a voxel-based morphometry study 7. Relating neural processing of reward and loss prospect to risky decisionmaking in individuals with and without gambling disorder 8. A review of opioid-based treatments for gambling disorder: an examination of treatment outcomes, cravings, and individual differences
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Luke Clark is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research on the psychology of gambling combines multiple methods including behavioural analysis, brain imaging, and psychophysiology. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers. He is Senior Editor at
Addiction, and Regional Assistant Editor for
International Gambling Studies.
Anna E. Goudriaan is full Professor in Addiction: Mechanisms and Treatment at Arkin Mental Health Care and the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam. She is a neuropsychologist and mental health psychologist with a combined research and clinical appointment. Her research focuses on the study of neurobiological mechanisms and innovative (neuromodulation) interventions in addictive disorders and dual diagnosis, including gambling disorder, alcohol use disorders and other substance use disorders (cannabis and cocaine). She has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and international papers.
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This volume describes recent research on gambling disorder as a behavioural addiction using an array of contemporary tools including structural and functional brain imaging, and neurocognitive assessment.
