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Antoine Bechara is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, economics and econometrics, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, gambling behavior and treatments, neural dynamics, brain function, and issues related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • How distinct functional insular subdivisions mediate interacting neurocognitive systems (2022, Cerebral Cortex)
  • The role of the insula in internet gaming disorder (2020, Addiction Biology)
  • Auricular transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates the heart-evoked potential (2021, Brain Stimulation)
  • Structural brain differences associated with extensive massively-multiplayer video gaming (2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior)
  • A Triple-System Neural Model of Maladaptive Consumption (2021, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Antoine Bechara include:

  • Ofir Turel
  • Qinghua He
  • Haichao Zhao
  • Chris Baeken
  • Xavier Noël

Their research contributions are regularly published in venues such as Addiction Biology, Value in Health, Cerebral Cortex, Brain Stimulation, and the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. The scientist has produced multiple papers in each of these journals, reflecting ongoing research engagement within these fields.

Best Publications

  • Differential effects of insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions on risky decision-making

    L. Clark;A. Bechara;H. Damasio;Michael Aitken

  • The neurocircuitry of impaired insight in drug addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;A.D. (Bud) Craig;Antoine Bechara;Hugh Garavan;Hugh Garavan

  • Probing compulsive and impulsive behaviors, from animal models to endophenotypes: a narrative review.

    Naomi A Fineberg;Naomi A Fineberg;Naomi A Fineberg;Marc N Potenza;Samuel R Chamberlain;Samuel R Chamberlain;Heather A Berlin

  • Using Cognitive Models to Map Relations Between Neuropsychological Disorders and Human Decision-Making Deficits

    Eldad Yechiam;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Julie C. Stout;Antoine Bechara

  • The tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus: a brain-stem output of the limbic system critical for the conditioned place preferences produced by morphine and amphetamine

    A Bechara;D van der Kooy

  • Iowa Gambling Task in schizophrenia: A review and new data in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use disorders

    Serge Sevy;Katherine E. Burdick;Hema Visweswaraiah;Sherif Abdelmessih

  • Opposite motivational effects of endogenous opioids in brain and periphery

    A Bechara;D van der Kooy

  • Response inhibition deficit is involved in poor decision making under risk in nonamnesic individuals with alcoholism.

    Xavier Noël;Antoine Bechara;Bernard Dan;Catherine Hanak

  • Alcohol cues increase cognitive impulsivity in individuals with alcoholism.

    Xavier Noël;Martial Van der Linden;Mathieu d’Acremont;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • Decision neuroscience and consumer decision making

    Carolyn Yoon;Richard Gonzalez;Antoine Bechara;Gregory S. Berns

  • Time Course of Attention for Alcohol Cues in Abstinent Alcoholic Patients: The Role of Initial Orienting

    Xavier Noel;Maud Colmant;Martial Van der Linden;Antoine Bechara

  • A single brain stem substrate mediates the motivational effects of both opiates and food in nondeprived rats but not in deprived rats.

    Antoine Bechara;Derek Van der Kooy

  • Impulsive action but not impulsive choice determines problem gambling severity

    Damien Brevers;Axel Cleeremans;Frederick Verbruggen;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • Patients with Huntington's disease have impaired awareness of cognitive, emotional, and functional abilities.

    Karin F. Hoth;Jane S. Paulsen;David J. Moser;Daniel Tranel

  • Abnormal affective decision making revealed in adolescent binge drinkers using a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Lin Xiao;Antoine Bechara;Qiyong Gong;Xiaoqi Huang

  • The Insula and Evaluative Processes

    Gary G. Berntson;Greg J. Norman;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara;Joel Bruss;Joel Bruss

  • Neurobiology of motivation: double dissociation of two motivational mechanisms mediating opiate reward in drug-naive versus drug-dependent animals.

    Antoine Bechara;Frances Harrington;Karim Nader;Derek Van der Kooy

  • NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF MOTIVATION

    K Nader;A Bechara;D van der Kooy

  • Impaired Decision-Making Under Risk in Individuals with Alcohol Dependence

    Damien Brevers;Damien Brevers;Antoine Bechara;Axel Cleeremans;Charles Kornreich

  • Decision making under ambiguity but not under risk is related to problem gambling severity.

    Damien Brevers;Axel Cleeremans;Anna E. Goudriaan;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek van der Kooy
Derek van der Kooy University of Toronto
Karim Nader
Karim Nader McGill University
David C.S. Roberts
David C.S. Roberts Wake Forest University
Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge
Carolyn W. Harley
Carolyn W. Harley Memorial University of Newfoundland

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