Importance Disrupted reward processing, mainly driven by striatal dysfunction, is a key
characteristic of addictive behaviors. However, functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Similarities and differences between obesity and addiction are a prominent topic of ongoing
research. We conducted an activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis on 87 studies in …

BACKGROUND: Mesocorticolimbic neurocircuitry and impulsivity have both been implicated
in pathological gambling (PG) and in reward processing. However, the neural …

Alterations in appetitive processing are central to the major psychological theories of
addiction, with differential predictions made by the reward deficiency, incentive salience …

Pathological gambling (PG) shares clinical characteristics such as craving and loss of
control with substance use disorders and is thus considered a behavioral addiction. While …

Background Pathological gambling (PG) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are
conceptualized as a behavioral addiction, with a dependency on repetitive gambling …

Background Individuals with gambling or substance-use disorders exhibit similar functional
alterations in reward circuitry suggestive of a shared underlying vulnerability in addictive …

OBJECTIVE: Alcohol dependence may be associated with dysfunction of mesolimbic
circuitry, such that anticipation of nonalcoholic reward fails to activate the ventral striatum …

Cue reactivity is an established procedure in addictions research for examining the
subjective experience and neural basis of craving. This experiment sought to quantify cue …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive tool used to probe cognitive
and affective processes. Although fMRI provides indirect measures of neural activity, the …