Impulsive people have a strong urge to act without thinking. It is sometimes regarded as a
positive trait but rash impulsiveness is also widely present in clinical disorders such as …

Rationale Pathological gambling (PG) has recently been considered as a “behavioral” or
nonsubstance addiction. A comparison of the characteristics of PG and substance use …

Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …

There is a high degree of overlap between brain regions involved in processing natural
rewards and drugs of abuse.“Non-drug” or “behavioral” addictions have become …

The predictive coding model is increasingly and fruitfully used to explain a wide range of
findings in perception. Here we discuss the potential of this model in explaining the …

Highlights•What the new DSM-5 means for the concept of behavioral addiction.•Common
theoretical framework for substance addiction, behavioral addictions and OCD.•Pathological …

Highlights•Noradrenergic, serotonergic, dopaminergic and other systems may influence
gambling.•Ventral prefrontal cortical and ventral striatal systems relate to …

Fear memories are notoriously difficult to erase, often recovering over time. The
longstanding explanation for this finding is that, in extinction training, a new memory is …

Gambling is pertinent to neuroscience research for at least two reasons. First, gambling is a
naturalistic and pervasive example of risky decision making, and thus gambling games can …

Functional imaging is offering powerful new tools to investigate the neurobiology of cognitive
functioning in people with and without psychiatric conditions like gambling disorder. Based …