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Special Initiative: “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Personalized Normative Feedback for Problem Gambling College Students”

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Principal Investigator: Clayton Neighbors, PhD, University of Houston
Awarded $171,561 in 2011

Aim: Develop and test an online screening and brief intervention (SBI) aimed at reducing gambling-related problems among college students using Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF), an approach successfully employed to reduce rates of drinking on campus by showing students their misperceptions of student drinking behavior.

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​Large Grant: “Assessing the Contribution of Reinforcement-learning Deficits in Pathological Gamblers”

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Principal Investigator: John O’Doherty, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Awarded $172,500 in 2011

Aim: Study patterns of neural activity while disordered gamblers – and a comparison group of recreational gamblers – perform simple tasks in which they learn to make choices in order to obtain monetary gains and avoid losses with hopes of learning what neurological factors are involved in responses to rewarding and punishing events among people with gambling problems.

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Seed Grant: “Evaluating and Treating the Near-Miss Magnitude Effect in Underage Pathological Gambling”

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Principal Investigator: Mark R. Dixon, PhD, Southern Illinois University
Awarded $34,500 in 2011

Aim: Test the hypothesis that exposure to “near-misses” that resemble large jackpot wins will produce greater activity in the dopamine reward system than near-misses that resemble small jackpot wins in an fMRI scanner; and evaluate the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for reducing and altering disordered gambling behavior.

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