Background Gambling urges in pathological gambling (PG) often immediately precede
engagement in self-destructive gambling behavior. An improved understanding of the neural …

Background Abnormalities in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices are implicated in
disturbances of attention, cognition, and impulse regulation in bipolar disorder. Acute episodes …

Background: The inability to inhibit unwanted behaviors and impulses produces functional
debility in a broad range of neuropsychiatric disorders. A potentially important model of …

OBJECTIVE: Identification of brain activity associated with craving is important for
understanding the neurobiology of addiction. METHOD: Brain activity was measured in cocaine …

OBJECTIVE: Function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been implicated in impulse
control. The authors used the Stroop paradigm to test attention and response inhibition …

While the Talairach atlas remains the most commonly used system for reporting coordinates
in neuroimaging studies, the absence of an actual 3-D image of the original brain used in its …

Importance Alcohol dependence is a chronic relapsing illness; stress, alcohol-related cues,
and neutral-relaxing states significantly influence craving and relapse risk. However, neural …

Objective: Although stress and drug cue exposure each increase drug craving and contribute
to relapse in cocaine dependence, no previous research has directly examined the neural …

Active coping underlies a healthy stress response, but neural processes supporting such
resilient coping are not well-known. Using a brief, sustained exposure paradigm contrasting …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study activation changes in the
human primary motor-sensory areas (MAs), supplementary motor areas (SMAs), premotor …