Cognitive impairment is commonly associated with the pain experience. This impairment
represents a major obstacle to daily activities and rehabilitation, especially in the chronic …

Impulsivity and compulsivity represent useful conceptualizations that involve dissociable
cognitive functions, which are mediated by neuroanatomically and neurochemically distinct …

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 …

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 …

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

Preferences for different combinations of costs and benefits are a key source of variability in
economic decision-making. However, the neurochemical basis of individual differences in …

Addictions are often characterized as forms of impulsive behavior. That said, it is often noted
that impulsivity is a multidimensional construct, spanning several psychological domains …

It has been observed that men and women show performance differences in the Iowa
Gambling Task (IGT), a task of decision-making in which subjects through exploration learn …

Gambling disorders, including pathological gambling and problem gambling, have received
increased attention from clinicians and researchers over the past three decades since …

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 …