Do gambling game choices reflect a recreational gambler’s motivations?
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Opioid and dopamine mediation of gambling responses in recreational gamblers
Cognitions play an important role in addictive behavior. This may be especially true for “behavioral addictions,” like pathological gambling, where reinforcement derives from environmental events whose value is, for the most part, learned. The study by Porchet and colleagues examines the roles of dopamine and the endogenous opioids in response to tasks designed to evoke gambling-related cogniti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1352-2752
DOI: 10.1108/qmr-10-2016-0093