addiction; cue reactivity; fMRI; gambling disorder; gambling‐related harm; reward availability, reward blocking; sports betting; Brain/diagnostic imaging; Emotions; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Gambling/diagnostic imaging; Sports; Brain; Gambling; Medicine (miscellaneous); Pharmacology; Psychiatry and Mental Health; gambling‐; related harm; reward availability; reward blocking
Abstract :
[en] The unprecedented development and ubiquity of sports betting constitute an emerging public health concern. It is crucial to provide markers that could help to better identify people experiencing sports betting-related harms. The current study investigated whether problem gambling status, sports betting passion, and trait-self-control modulate brain reactivity to sports betting cues. Sixty-five frequent sports bettors (35 "nonproblem bettors" and 30 "problem bettors") were exposed to cues representing real upcoming sport events (with varying levels of winning confidence) that were made available or blocked for betting, during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) recording. Sports betting passion and trait-self-control were assessed using self-report scales. Sport events nonavailable for betting elicited higher insular and striatal activation in problem bettors, as compared with nonproblem bettors. Within a large cluster encompassing the ventral striatum, hippocampus, and amygdala, lower trait-self-control was associated with increased brain reactivity to sport events with high levels of winning confidence that were nonavailable for betting. No significant effect of sports betting passion was observed. These findings suggest that sports bettors' brain reactivity to gambling unavailability might be a relevant marker of sports betting-related harms, as well as of blunted trait-self-control.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
BREVERS, Damien ✱; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > Team Claus VÖGELE
Baeken, Chris ; Department of Psychiatry University Hospital, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium ; Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium ; Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Bechara, Antoine; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
He, Qinghua ; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Maurage, Pierre ; Louvain for Experimental Psychopathology Research Group (LEP), Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Petieau, Mathieu; Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Erasme Campus, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Sescousse, Guillaume ; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center-INSERM U1028-CNRS UMR5292, PSYR2 Team, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Billieux, Joël ; Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ; Centre for Excessive Gambling, Lausanne University Hospitals (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
✱ These authors have contributed equally to this work.
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Increased brain reactivity to gambling unavailability as a marker of problem gambling.
R-AGR-3548 - C18/BM/12552025 BETHAB - part UL - VÖGELE Claus
Funders :
Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
Funding text :
D.B. is supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR); CORE—Junior Track (BETHAB). P.M. (Senior Research Associate) is funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.—FNRS, Brussels, Belgium). C.B. was supported by the “Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds” (grant number BOF 16/GOA/017), and the “Rode Neuzen” funding for scientific research (grant number G0F4617N).
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