Incentive-elicited striatal activation in adolescent children of alcoholics.

AIMS: Deficient recruitment of motivational circuitry by non-drug rewards has been postulated as a pre-morbid risk factor for substance dependence (SD). We tested whether parental alcoholism, which confers risk of SD, is correlated with altered recruitment of ventral striatum (VS) by non-drug reward...

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Published in:Addiction Vol. 103; no. 8; pp. 1308 - 1320
Main Authors: Bjork JM, Knutson B, Hommer DW
Format: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2008
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