Increased brain reactivity to gambling unavailability as a marker of problem gambling
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- Damien Brevers, Chris Baeken (UGent) , Antoine Bechara, Qinghua He, Pierre Maurage, Mathieu Petieau, Guillaume Sescousse, Claus Vögele and Joël Billieux
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- The unprecedented development and ubiquity of sports betting constitute an emerging public health concern. It is crucial to provide markers that could help to better identify people experiencing sports betting-related harms. The current study investigated whether problem gambling status, sports betting passion, and trait-self-control modulate brain reactivity to sports betting cues. Sixty-five frequent sports bettors (35 "nonproblem bettors" and 30 "problem bettors") were exposed to cues representing real upcoming sport events (with varying levels of winning confidence) that were made available or blocked for betting, during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) recording. Sports betting passion and trait-self-control were assessed using self-report scales. Sport events nonavailable for betting elicited higher insular and striatal activation in problem bettors, as compared with nonproblem bettors. Within a large cluster encompassing the ventral striatum, hippocampus, and amygdala, lower trait-self-control was associated with increased brain reactivity to sport events with high levels of winning confidence that were nonavailable for betting. No significant effect of sports betting passion was observed. These findings suggest that sports bettors' brain reactivity to gambling unavailability might be a relevant marker of sports betting-related harms, as well as of blunted trait-self-control.
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- Medicine (miscellaneous), Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental health, addiction, cue reactivity, fMRI | gambling disorder, gambling‐, related harm, reward availability, reward blocking, sports betting, SELF-CONTROL, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, VENTRAL STRIATUM, EGO-DEPLETION, REWARD, RESPONSES, OPTIMIZATION, REGISTRATION, FRUSTRATION, VALENCE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8696104
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- Brevers, Damien, et al. “Increased Brain Reactivity to Gambling Unavailability as a Marker of Problem Gambling.” ADDICTION BIOLOGY, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021, doi:10.1111/adb.12996.
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- Brevers, D., Baeken, C., Bechara, A., He, Q., Maurage, P., Petieau, M., … Billieux, J. (2021). Increased brain reactivity to gambling unavailability as a marker of problem gambling. ADDICTION BIOLOGY, 26(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12996
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- Brevers, Damien, Chris Baeken, Antoine Bechara, Qinghua He, Pierre Maurage, Mathieu Petieau, Guillaume Sescousse, Claus Vögele, and Joël Billieux. 2021. “Increased Brain Reactivity to Gambling Unavailability as a Marker of Problem Gambling.” ADDICTION BIOLOGY 26 (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12996.
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- Brevers, Damien, Chris Baeken, Antoine Bechara, Qinghua He, Pierre Maurage, Mathieu Petieau, Guillaume Sescousse, Claus Vögele, and Joël Billieux. 2021. “Increased Brain Reactivity to Gambling Unavailability as a Marker of Problem Gambling.” ADDICTION BIOLOGY 26 (4). doi:10.1111/adb.12996.
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- 1.Brevers D, Baeken C, Bechara A, He Q, Maurage P, Petieau M, et al. Increased brain reactivity to gambling unavailability as a marker of problem gambling. ADDICTION BIOLOGY. 2021;26(4).
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- [1]D. Brevers et al., “Increased brain reactivity to gambling unavailability as a marker of problem gambling,” ADDICTION BIOLOGY, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021.
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