Cue-Driven Control Mechanisms Across Alcohol Use Disorder, Binge-Eating Disorder, Gambling Disorder, and Internet Gaming Disorder

This review examines how environmental cues associated with rewards influence behavior across multiple addictive disorders including alcohol use, binge eating, gambling, and internet gaming, focusing on learning mechanisms like Pavlovian conditioning and Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer. The evidence suggests partially overlapping but distinct processes (incentive salience, attention capture, instrumental control modulation) differentially expressed across individuals and disorders rather than a single cue-reactivity mechanism.