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Nearly winning is more rewarding in gamblings addicts

April 13, 2016 by

Pathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events that come very close to a win. Neuroscientists show this in fMRI scans of twenty-two pathological gamblers and just as many healthy controls.

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