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and amygdala (Damasio 1994). IGT has also found evidence that disputes the unlearned task.
remained as a useful model to evaluate usefulness of IGT to evaluate impaired Bartzokis et al. compared some
decision-making; However, the relation decision-making: A subgroup of drug recently abstinent with some non-
between IGT and SMH is disputed by abusers had good performance on the abstinent cocaine dependent subjects
some researchers (Dunn, Dalgleish and IGT and also developed the anticipatory using IGT, WCST and the California
Lawrence, 2006; Maia and McClelland, SCRs. Verbal Learning Task (CVLT). It is
2005; Tomb, Hauser, Deldin and Clark et al. had a deep insight into the agreed that CVLT evaluates verbal
Caramazza, 2002). Bechara and colleagues study. They learning and short-term memory
The investigations of Iowa researchers reviewed the results of Bechara’s study associated to the left medial temporal
showed that patients with different in detail and criticized the methodology cortex (Sullivan, Shear, Zipursky, Sagar,
impaired brain regions have poorer of their study. Clark et al. argued that the Pfefferbaum, 1994). They found the
performance on the IGT than healthy participants in the two Bechara’s studies cocaine dependent subjects with four
subjects. Bechara and colleagues had been abstinent for at least 15 days, or more days abstinence performed
found that VMPFC patients, patients while some neuro-imaging studies better than subjects with fewer than four
with amygdala deficit and OFC patients showed the VMPFC modulation in the days of abstinence. Also, they found
choose from disadvantageous decks withdrawal period of abstinent (Clark that cocaine abusers performance on
more than advantageous decks. In some and Robbins, 2002). WCST and CVLT were not sensitive
studies, Skin Conductance Response Grant et al. investigated the to abstinence, so they suggested that
(SCR) and the heart rating are recorded performance of SDIs on the IGT and effect of cocaine mediated by VMPFC.
as somatic signals. These patients with Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) They suggested that IGT is a useful task
VMPFC or OFC lesion did not develop (Grant, Contoreggi and London, 2000). to evaluate the pharmacologic effects
anticipatory SCRs but develop the The WCST is a neuropsychological on clinical variables (Bartzokis, Lu,
reward and punishment SCRs, while the test of set-shifting, the ability to display Beckson, Rapoport, Grant, Wiseman,
patients with amygdala lesion develop flexibility in the face of changing London, 2000).
none of them. In these studies, SCR was schedules of reinforcements (Spreen , Garavan et al. proposed a
supposed to be the marker of emotional Strauss, 1991). There is consensus that neurobiological mechanism of addiction
states based on SMH (Bechara, Tranel, poor performance of WCST is related using the result of SDIs on a modified
Damasio and Damasio, 1996; Bechara, to deficit of frontal lobe in particular version of IGT (Garavan and Stout,
Damasio, Tranel and Damasio, 1997; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and 2005). They suggested drug abusers
Bechara, Damasio, Damasio and Lee, parietal cortex (Anderson, Damasio H, are not able to modify their behavior in
1999; Bechara, Damasio and Damasio, Jones, Tranel, 1991, Berman, Ostrem, response to feedback about negative
2000). Randolph, Gold, Goldberg, Coppola, consequences. The most important
Many reports which evaluate the Carson, Herscovitch, Weinberger, evidence of this suggestion was the
decision-making impairments using 1995). Bechara et al. found the IGT poorer performance of SDIs on the
IGT are recorded in detail until now. is sensitive to ventromedial region of modified version of IGT than the standard
These reports include the studies that PreFrontal Cortex (PFC) despite of version. In the modified version, when
assess the performance of patients with dorsolateral part of PFC (Bechara, the participant selects a deck, the top
varying brain disorders, and studies that Damasio, Tranel, Anderson ,1998). cards of other decks are revealed in
investigate the impairment of decision- Grant et al. study showed the SDIs have addition to the top card of the chosen
making in the Substance-Dependent poorer performance on the IGT than deck. They proposed the inability to
Individuals (SDIs). healthy subjects, but SDIs do not differ behavior monitoring may be the result of
from healthy subjects on the WCST. malfunction of Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Drug abuse studies using IGT They have concluded the IGT is a useful (ACC) of the drug abusers.
Bechara and colleagues investigated model in laboratory studies of cognitive In Table 1, we summarize some other
the decision-making deficit in addicts dysfunctions associated with drug abuse studies that used IGT to investigate the
using IGT (Bechara, Nader and van der but WCST is not a useful model. Also behavior of SDIs.
Kooy, 1998; Bechara, Dolan, Denburg, the study showed the impaired decision-
Hindes, Anderson and Nathan, 2001; making of the SDIs is related to deficit of Review some other varying
Bechara and Damasio, 2002; Bechara, VMPFC rather than dorsolateral PFC. studies using IGT
Dolan and Hindes, 2002; Bechara, 2003; Ernst et al. used IGT as a risk-taking The performance of the patients
Bechara and Martin, 2004; Bechara, task, which is sensitive to drug abuse, with schizophrenia comparing with
2005). Bechara emphasized on the role to indicate regions of brain involved healthy control has recorded in several
of somatic signals and some sectors in decision-making after controlling studies because of the prevalent idea
of the brain especially VMPFC Based for expectations of outcomes; also to of emotional deficit in schizophrenia
on SMH. Bechara et al. evaluated the examine the brain regions that are (Trémeau, 2006). In Table 2, we
decision-making of drug abusers using activated by the learned aspect of summarize some of these studies.
the original version of IGT (ABCD) decision-making using neuro-imaging In addition to drug abuse and
(Bechara and Damasio H, 2002) and the method (PET study) (Ernst, Bolla, schizophrenia, the performance of the
variant version (EFGH) (Bechara, Dolan Mouratidis, Contorregi, Matochik, patients with various disorders and
and Hindes, 2002). They found drug Kurian, Cadet, Kimes and Londeon, individuals with specific properties has
abusers did not develop the anticipatory 2002). They controlled the conditions studied on the IGT. Table 3 explains
SCRs. Based on it, they concluded the of healthy participants carefully. They some of these studies.
somatic markers did not develop and found the regions involved in decision-
so the impaired decision-making in the making included OFC, dorsolateral PFC, Our Experiences in Iran
drug abusers is the result of emotional ventrolateral PFC, anterior cingulate In neurocognitive laboratory of Iranian
mechanism deficit. Their studies showed cortex, insula, parietal cortex, thalamus National Center for Addiction Studies,
the poor performance in SDIs was due and cerebellum. They also reported the Ekhtiari, H. and Behzadi, A. , 2000,
to the hypersensitivity to reward in learned task activated the left amygdala, developed computerized Persian version
some SDIs and myopia for the future the left middle PFC and the left posterior of IGT and added some new features to
consequences in some other SDIs. They parietal cortex compared with the its original version by making possible
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to evaluate different temporal variables 1. Trans Cultural Differencos: Risky Ekhtiari et al , 2003, founded that Iranian
during decision making in IGT. We used Decision making (RDM) as a part of normal subjects show lesser scores in
this task on finger touch monitors in social cognition could be affected by IGT in comparison to other reported
different studies during these years. cultural features of learning environment. performances of normal subjects from
Studying long-term heavy marijuana users Whitlow, Liguori, Livengood, et al, 2004
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Investigating the decision-making deficit in the patients with Impaired decision-making in the
Shurman, Horan and Nuechterlein, 2005
schizophrenia patients with schizophrenia
Assessing patients with schizophrenia Turnbull, Evans, Kemish et al, 2006 Used a modified version of IGT
Table 2. Some studies that evaluate the decision-making of schizophrenia patients using IGT
US and Europe. They proposed that sensitive to frequency of punishment in Sclerosis Ekhtiari, et al, 2007, reported
this weak performance could be due comparison to its amount. that poor performance of MS patients
to insensivity to punishment amount. in IGT could be interpreted as a
Iranian subjects usually are more 2. Conservative Behavior in Multiple conservative behavior that could be
Study Authors
Schmitt,
Psychopathy Brinkley and Newman, 1999
Severe acute mania Clark, Iversen and Goodwin, 2001
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