Background This review aims to identify whether risky decision-making is increased in
substance users, and the impact of substance type, polysubstance use status, abstinence …

BACKGROUND: Individuals with drug addictions report increased willingness to approach
rewards. Approach behaviors are thought to involve executive control processes and are …

The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral activation system (BAS) are
hypothesized to underlie motivated behavior, relate to hippocampal and amygdalar function …

Methamphetamine (MA) use and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) commonly
co-occur and are independently associated with dysregulation of frontostriatal loops and …

Introduction: People with addiction will continue to use drugs despite adverse long-term
consequences. We hypothesized (a) that this deficit persists during substitution treatment …

It has been observed that one's Behavioral Approach System (BAS) can have an effect on
decision-making under uncertainty, although the results have been mixed. To discern the …

Background Personality traits such as pathological engagement in approach behaviors,
high levels of impulsivity and heightened negative affect are consistently observed in …

The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has become a remarkable experimental paradigm of
dynamic emotion decision making. In recent years, research has emphasized the “prominent …

We investigated whether forensic psychiatric inpatients can be distinguished from prisoners
and healthy controls on the basis of their performance on cognitive tasks measuring …

The study analyzed decision making under ambiguity and risk, impulsivity, and acute effects
of alcohol intoxication on these processes in subjects exhibiting either one, both, or none of …