Post-traumatic stress symptoms in pathological gambling: Potential evidence of anti-reward processes
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Post-traumatic stress symptoms in pathological gambling: Potential evidence of anti-reward processes
Background Excessive gambling is considered to be a part of the addiction spectrum. Stress-like emotional states are a key feature both of pathological gambling (PG) and of substance addiction. In substance addiction, stress symptomatology has been attributed in part to "anti-reward" allostatic neuroadaptations, while a potential involvement of anti-reward processes in the course of PG has not ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Behavioral Addictions
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2062-5871,2063-5303
DOI: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.006