Relationships between reward sensitivity, risk-taking and family history of alcoholism during an interactive competitive fMRI task.

Individuals with a positive family history for alcoholism (FHP) have shown differences from family-history-negative (FHN) individuals in the neural correlates of reward processing. FHP, compared to FHN individuals, demonstrate relatively diminished ventral striatal activation during anticipation of...

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Main Authors: Haley L Yarosh, Christopher J Hyatt, Shashwath A Meda, Rachel Jiantonio-Kelly, Marc N Potenza, Michal Assaf, Godfrey D Pearlson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3913753?pdf=render