Pathological gambling is a clinically significant mental disorder and describes people with problem gambling that meet the respective diagnostic criteria for this disorder. People with ...

Additionally, individuals with a pathological gambling disorder have a high rate of co-morbidity rate for additional mental health disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, personality ...

I’m treating guys who would never be caught dead in a casino,” James Whelan, a clinical psychologist who runs treatment ...

Additionally, individuals with a pathological gambling disorder have a high rate of co-morbidity rate for additional mental health disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, personality ...

The study also found an excess of alcoholism, drug disorders and antisocial personality disorder in families with pathological gamblers. Problem gambling runs in families according to a University ...

Pathological gambling (PG) is a major public health problem ... and dopamine neurotransmitter systems play a role in this disorder. Thus, pharmacologic agents that mediate these neurotransmitter ...

It was just last year, in the American Psychiatric Association’s updated DSM 5, that “pathological gambling” was renamed “gambling disorder” and placed in the same category as substance ...

Gambling disorder (GD), as defined by the American ... Delineating between “high and low-frequency gamblers” and “pathological gamblers in treatment,” Meyer and Stadler noted considerable ...

Mulhauser, K., Weinstock, J., & Ruppert, P. (in press). Changes in neuropsychological status during the initial phase of abstinence in alcohol use disorder ...

Diagnoses of pathological gambling disorders among ... Studies have found the prevalence of problem gambling and gambling disorder among veterans to be as high as 10.7% in some parts of the ...

The genetic study would require thousands of blood samples drawn from pathological gamblers in search of a gene responsible for predisposition to a gambling disorder. "What we find with ...