The brain is an inherently dynamic system, and executive cognition requires dynamically
reconfiguring, highly evolving networks of brain regions that interact in complex and transient …

Schizophrenia is increasingly recognized as a disorder of distributed neural dynamics, but
the molecular and genetic contributions are poorly understood. Recent work highlights a role …

One of the major risk factors for global death and disability is alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug
use. While there is increasing knowledge with respect to individual factors promoting the …

Importance Attenuated ventral striatal response during reward anticipation is a core feature
of schizophrenia that is seen in prodromal, drug-naive, and chronic schizophrenic patients. …

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 …

Pathological gambling (PG) shares clinical characteristics with substance-use disorders
and is thus discussed as a behavioral addiction. Recent neuroimaging studies on PG report …

Common variation in the gene encoding the neuron-specific RNA splicing factor RNA Binding
Fox-1 Homolog 1 (RBFOX1) has been identified as a risk factor for several psychiatric …

Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated an involvement of the prefrontal cortex
and mesolimbic reward system (ie, ventral striatum) in pathological gambling (PG). However, …

Diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling and alcohol dependence (AD) include repeated
addictive behavior despite severe negative consequences. However, the concept of loss …

Individuals differ in how they learn from experience. In Pavlovian conditioning models,
where cues predict reinforcer delivery at a different goal location, some animals—called sign-…