Gambling on the brain.

• Autores: Ferris Jabr
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 309, Nº. 5, 2013, págs. 28-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the similar neurological, psychological, and genetical conditions of compulsive gambling and drug addiction. Topics discussed include gambling addiction, the similar reward circuitry between people who gamble and take drugs, and the electrical activity in the prefrontal brain region for pathological gamblers.