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赌博障碍是指持续且反复的赌博行为,给个人、家庭和社会都带来了严重后果,近年来受到越来越多研究者的关注。本研究总结了赌博障碍的认知功能缺陷及其神经基础,主要集中在如下四个方面:(1)认知扭曲、(2)奖赏和惩罚敏感性、(3)注意偏向和(4)决策。未来研究应多从认知神经科学角度深入探究赌博障碍的发生机制和发展过程,关注大脑结构变化及功能网络改变,并将其整合到一个统一的神经生物机制框架中,找到更加有效的干预和治疗手段。

The essential feature of gambling disorder is persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior that has recently gained much attention because of its increasing prevalence and devastating personal, familial, and social consequences. Based on similarities between gambling and substance-use disorders in neurocognitive and other domains, gambling disorder has recently been classified into "substance-related and addictive disorders" in the DSM-5, as "Non-Substance-Related Disorders". For a better understanding of the causes of gambling disorder and its underlying neural mechanisms, we provided an integrative review of cognitive dysfunction of gambling disorders studies implicated in cognitive distortions, reward and punishment sensitivity, attention bias, and decision making. The future research needs to study more on the mechanism and development process of gambling disorders from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, pay attention to the brain structural alterations and functional brain networks in gambling disorders, and integrate them into clinical neurobiological mechanisms to find more effective interventions and clinical treatments. We summarized the research on the cognitive dysfunction and neural mechanisms involved in gambling disorder.(1) It investigated brain regions underpinning gambling-related cognitive distortions. ‘Near-miss’ events, where unsuccessful outcomes were proximal to a win, recruited overlapping neural circuitry with actual monetary wins. Illusion of control over a gamble was also known to increase confidence in one’s chances of winning, showing an increased neural activity within a cortico-striatal network. ‘Loss-chasing’, or continued gambling in an attempt to recover losses, implicated a complex of executive-control and impulsivity-related systems involved in loss-processing.(2) Differences in sensitivity to punishments and rewards could influence an individual’s behavior and might be pertinent to the development of gambling disorder. The deficit in rewards and losses processing typically observed a reduction of ventral striatal activation in individuals with gambling disorder. We intended to add evidence on relevant brain structures in this functional brain system. Functional neuroimaging studies on gambling disorder found changes in the mesolimbic reward system(i.e., ventral striatum) and in the prefrontal cortex during reward processing and executive functions. In accordance with the observations, there were evidences that showing higher grey matter volumes in ventral striatum and anterior prefrontal cortex in gambling disorder as compared with controls.(3) Gambling-related cues could enhance the activities in the cognitive-controlled brain circuits(prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate gyrus, etc.) as well as emotional processing brain circuits(amygdala, insula, nucleus accumbens, etc.), which might be a potential neural basis for attentional bias towards gambling disorders, resulted in increased attention to the gambling-related stimuli. In addition, relatively diminished hippocampal and amygdalar volumes were found in gambling disorder individuals.(4) These individuals’ poor decision-making might be a product of an imbalance between the emotion and motivation-related brain regions(amygdala, insula, etc.) and the prefrontal cortex.Finally, we propose that future studies should(1) Be more concerned about the relationship between functional and structural alterations to add evidence on relevant brain structures in this functional brain system.(2) Analyze the cognition, pathological state and working mechanism of the gambling disorders in a dynamic functional connectivity networks, explore the relationship between gambling disorders and brain function connectivity, and reveal the neural mechanism of gambling disorders.(3) Integrate neuroimaging measures into pathophysiological, offer the opportunity to understand the mechanisms underlying effective treatments, and translate neurobiological advances into more effective prevention and treatment strategies.

本研究得到国家自然科学基金（3 1 _ 5 9 ) 、中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金项目（S W U 1 8 _ 3 ) 、中国科学院心理健康重点实验室开放课题基金（K L M H 2019K 05)、重庆市留学回国人员创业创新支持i 十划（CX2017049) 和中国基础教育质量监测协同创新中心自主支持课题（2016~06~014-BZK01,SCSM -2016A2-15003.JCXQ-C-LA-1 ) 的资助。