Increased Functional Connectivity between Prefrontal Cortex and Reward System in Pathological Gambling

Saskia Koehler; Smadar Ovadia-Caro; Elke van der Meer; Arno Villringer; Andreas Heinz; Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth; Daniel S. Margulies

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084565

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Increased Functional Connectivity between Prefrontal Cortex and Reward System in Pathological Gambling

Saskia Koehler ,

* E-mail: saskia.koehler@psychologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Smadar Ovadia-Caro,

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Elke van der Meer,

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Arno Villringer,

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Andreas Heinz,

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth, Daniel S. Margulies

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Daniel S. Margulies

Contributed equally to this work with: Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth, Daniel S. Margulies

Affiliations Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind-Brain Institute, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Increased Functional Connectivity between Prefrontal Cortex and Reward System in Pathological Gambling

Saskia Koehler,
Smadar Ovadia-Caro,
Elke van der Meer,
Arno Villringer,
Andreas Heinz,
Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth,
Daniel S. Margulies

Published: December 19, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084565

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