Midbrain mutiny : the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling : economic theory and cognitive science / / Don Ross [and others]
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| Titolo: |
Midbrain mutiny : the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling : economic theory and cognitive science / / Don Ross [and others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.85/841 |
| Soggetto topico: | Compulsive gambling |
| Motivation (Psychology) | |
| Reward (Psychology) | |
| Choice (Psychology) | |
| Neuroeconomics | |
| Economics | |
| Cognitive science | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | NEUROSCIENCE/General |
| ECONOMICS/General | |
| Altri autori: |
RossDon <1962->
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| Note generali: | "A Bradford book." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-289) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Is there such a thing as addiction? -- Gambling in scientific focus -- Picoeconomics, impulsive consumption, and disordered gambling -- Behavioral and psychological investigations of disordered gambling -- The neuroeconomics of addiction -- Addictive gambling as the basic form of addiction -- Clinical evidence and implications -- The microexplanation of disordered gambling. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Midbrain mutiny |
| ISBN: | 0-262-26445-5 |
| 1-282-09946-9 | |
| 9786612099465 | |
| 0-262-28264-X | |
| 1-4356-3525-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781837503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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