A critical review of the harm-minimisation tools available for electronic gambling

A Harris, MD Griffiths - Journal of Gambling Studies, 2017 - Springer
The increasing sophistication of gambling products afforded by electronic technologies
facilitates increased accessibility to gambling, as well as encouraging rapid and continuous …

Disordered gambling: Etiology, trajectory, and clinical considerations

HJ Shaffer, R Martin - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Gambling-related research has advanced rapidly during the past 20 years. As a result of
expanding interest in pathological gambling (PG), stakeholders (eg, clinicians, regulators …

Risk-sensitive neurons in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

AN McCoy, ML Platt - Nature neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
People and animals often demonstrate strong attraction or aversion to options with uncertain
or risky rewards, yet the neural substrate of subjective risk preferences has rarely been …

Cue-induced brain activity in pathological gamblers

DN Crockford, B Goodyear, J Edwards, J Quickfall… - Biological …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Previous studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have
identified differential brain activity in healthy subjects performing gambling tasks and in …

Dopamine release in ventral striatum during Iowa Gambling Task performance is associated with increased excitement levels in pathological gambling

J Linnet, A Møller, E Peterson, A Gjedde, D Doudet - Addiction, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Gambling excitement is believed to be associated with biological measures of
pathological gambling. Here, we tested the hypothesis that dopamine release would be …

How foraging works: uncertainty magnifies food-seeking motivation

P Anselme, O Güntürkün - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
Food uncertainty has the effect of invigorating food-related responses. Psychologists have
noted that mammals and birds respond more to a conditioned stimulus that unreliably …

The Gambling Craving Scale: Psychometric validation and behavioral outcomes.

MM Young, MJA Wohl - Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Although craving is an important feature of problem gambling, there is a paucity of research
investigating craving to gamble. A major stumbling block for craving research in gambling …

Physiological responses to near-miss outcomes and personal control during simulated gambling

L Clark, B Crooks, R Clarke, MRF Aitken… - Journal of Gambling …, 2012 - Springer
Near-miss outcomes during gambling are non-win outcomes that fall close to a pay-out.
While objectively equivalent to an outright miss, near-misses motivate ongoing play and may …

The neural circuitry of reward and its relevance to psychiatric disorders

DT Chau, RM Roth, AI Green - Current psychiatry reports, 2004 - Springer
Scientific interest in how the brain processes reward has burgeoned during the past 50
years since the discovery that rats will do tasks such as pressing a lever to obtain electrical …

The impact of sound in modern multiline video slot machine play

MJ Dixon, KA Harrigan, DL Santesso… - Journal of Gambling …, 2014 - Springer
Slot machine wins and losses have distinctive, measurable, physiological effects on players.
The contributing factors to these effects remain under-explored. We believe that sound is …