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The Impact of Selective Dopamine D2, D3 and D4 Ligands on the Rat Gambling Task
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Ciano, Patricia Di Pushparaj, Abhiram Kim, Aaron Hatch, Jessica Masood, Talal Ramzi, Abby Khaled, Maram A. T. M. Boileau, Isabelle Winstanley, Catherine A. Foll, Bernard Le |
| Editor | Mccutcheon, James Edgar |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Gambling is an addictive disorder with serious societal and personal costs. To-date, there are no approved pharmacological treatments for gambling disorder. Evidence suggests a role for dopamine in gambling disorder and thus may provide a therapeutic target. The present study therefore aimed to investigate the effects of selective antagonists and agonists of D2, D3 and D4 receptors in a rodent analogue of the Iowa gambling task used clinically. In this rat gambling task (rGT), animals are trained to associate different response holes with different magnitudes and probabilities of food pellet rewards and punishing time-out periods. As in the Iowa gambling task, the optimal strategy is to avoid the tempting high-risk high-reward options, and instead favor those linked to smaller per-trial rewards but also lower punishments, thereby maximizing the amount of reward earned over time. Administration of those selective ligands did not affect decision making under the rGT. Only the D4 drug had modest effects on latency measures suggesting that D4 may contribute in some ways to decision making under this task. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136267 |
| Starting Page | 136267 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 19326203 |
| e-ISSN | 19326203 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Issue Number | 9 |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Public Library of Science |
| Subject Keyword | Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Multidisciplinary |