This page is dedicated to health problems associated with compulsive or pathological gambling
Preuschoff K, ‘t Hart BM, Einhäuser W.Social and Neural Systems Lab, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.Front Neurosci. 2011;5:115. Epub 2011 Sep 30. Our decisions are guided by the rewards we expect. These expectations are often based on incomplete knowledge and are thus subject to uncertainty. While the neurophysiology of expected rewards is well understood, less […]
Gavaudan G, Magalon D, Cohen J, Lançon C, Léonetti G, Pélissier-Alicot AL.Service de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.J Forensic Sci. 2010 Jun 23. Pathological gambling (PG), classified in the DSM-IV among impulse control disorders, is defined as inappropriate, persistent gaming for money with serious personal, family, and social consequences. […]
Welte JW, Barnes GM, Tidwell MC, Hoffman JH.Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.J Gambl Stud. 2010 May 25. Two national U.S. telephone surveys of gambling were conducted, an adult survey (age 18 and over, N = 2,631) in 1999-2000 and a youth (age 14-21, N […]
Najavits LM.Harvard Medical School, Treatment Innovations, 28 Westbourne Road, Newton Centre, MA, USA.J Gambl Stud. 2010 Jun 2. This study explored the treatment preferences of 106 people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pathological gambling (PG), or both. It is the first know study of its type for this comorbidity. Sixteen different treatment types were rated, […]
Ferentzy P, Skinner W, Antze P.Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.J Gambl Stud. 2009 Dec 22. This paper examines changing spousal roles and their effects upon recovery in Gamblers Anonymous (GA). It is based upon a qualitative study designed to gage uniformity as well as variations in approaches to recovery in GA.
Kaasinen V, Halme J, Alho H. TYKS:n neurologian klinikka ja Valtakunnallinen PET-keskus, Turku. Duodecim. 2009;125(19):2075-83. Approximately one third of problem gamblers in Finland suffer from pathological gambling. An essential factor affecting the genesis of pathological gambling is a dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward system. It may be associated with the pleasure arising from gambling along […]
Vachon DD, Bagby RM. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA. Psychol Assess. 2009 Dec;21(4):608-15. Although pathological gambling (PG) is regarded in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as a unitary diagnostic construct, it is likely composed of distinct subtypes. In the current report, the […]
Mazzoleni MH, Gorenstein C, Fuentes D, Tavares H.Gambling Outpatient Unit and Other Impulse Control Disorder, Department of Psychiatry, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2009 Oct 16. pii: S1516-44462009005000009. Objective: Wives of pathological gamblers tend to endure long marriages despite financial and emotional burden. Difficulties in social adjustment, personality psychopathology, and […]
Schreiber L, Odlaug BL, Kim SW, Grant JE.Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.Am J Addict. 2009 Nov-Dec;18(6):462-9. This analysis compares the characteristics of adult pathological gamblers with and without a problem gambling parent. A sample of 517 individuals with current DSM-IV pathological gambling was categorized based on presence of […]
Chan VK.School of Business, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Rua de Luis Gonzaga Gomes, Macao, People’s Republic of China. J Gambl Stud. 2009 Jul 11. This article describes the use of neural networks (a type of artificial intelligence) and an empirical data sample of, inter alia, the amounts of bets laid and the winnings/losses made in successive […]
