Altered effective connectivity of the reward network during an incentive processing task in adults with alcohol use disorder

CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with AUD have disrupted EC in both instrumentally-driven and automatized cortico-striatal reward circuits during non-alcohol reward feedback. These results point to disrupted corticostriatal EC in both "top-down" and "bottom-up" pathways among individuals with AUD.PMID:34120362 | DOI:10.1111/acer.14650

Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - June 13, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Albert J Arias Liangsuo Ma James M Bjork Christopher J Hammond Yi Zhou Andrew Snyder F Gerard Moeller Source Type: research