Sentences with phrase «between pathological gambling»

A twin study of the association between pathological gambling and antisocial personality disorder.

However, Black was surprised by the connection between pathological gambling and social anxiety and PTSD connection.

«These studies highlight the overlap between pathological gambling and drug addiction.

Not exact matches

Addiction therapists agree it can be difficult to distinguish between pathological and non-pathological gambling in contrast to drug and alcohol addiction, where there are obvious signs of intoxication.

In collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Dr Henrietta Bowden - Jones, director of the UK's only specialist gambling clinic in the Central and North West London NHS Trust, Dr Clark and his colleagues compared the brains and behaviours of 86 male, pathological gamblers with those of 45 healthy men without a gambling problem.

Pathological gambling — gambling that is serious enough that it becomes a clinical issue — is a major public health problem that affects between 0.5 and 1.5 percent of American adults at some point during their lives.

A growing literature continues to build evidence showing neurobiological and behavioral parallels between addiction, pathological gambling, and obesity.

Several studies have noted the comorbidity between impulse control disorders including pathological gambling and bipolar illness.1 Notably, Hollander et al report that the improvements in gambling behaviour were closely associated with reduced affective instability rather than improved mood or anxiety.

So too it may seem, as with pathological gambling, that an interaction between personality traits may put an individual at a higher risk.

Future research on factors contributing to pathological gambling should also take into consideration the interactions between factors, such as the interaction between impulsivity and sensation seeking.

Another good point was the interaction between factors such as impulsivity and sensation seeking together being the cause of a disorder such as pathological gambling; just one may not lead to the disorder, which may be the effect of all the factors interacting.

This article therefore proposes a critical review of (1) the literature providing a better understanding of the complex interactions between the couple relationship and pathological gambling, (2) studies on the effects of couple therapies on gamblers and their partners.