Decision-Making Deficits of Korsakoff Patients in a New Gambling Task With Explicit Rules: Associations With Executive Functions. |
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Authors: | Brand, Matthias Fujiwara, Esther Borsutzky, Sabine Kalbe, Elke Kessler, Josef Markowitsch, Hans J. |
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Abstract: | Decision-making deficits reflected by risky decisions in gambling tasks have been associated with frontal lobe dysfunctions in various neurologic and psychiatric populations. The question remains whether decision-making impairments are related to executive functions. The authors developed a new gambling task, the Game of Dice Task, with explicit and stable rules for reinforcement and punishment, to investigate relations between executive functions and risk-taking behavior in an explicit decision-making situation. A sample of 35 alcoholic Korsakoff patients and 35 healthy controls was examined with the Game of Dice Task and a neuropsychological test battery. Results show that Korsakoff patients are strongly impaired in this explicit decision-making task and that these disturbances are correlated with specific executive functions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | decision-making deficits Korsakoff Patients gambling task executive function risky decisions |
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