Eighty per cent of participants admitted to taking part in some sort of
gambling activity during their lifetime.
Not exact matches
It is often said that more
gambling (including playing the lottery) takes place
during economic crises, but a study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) indicates that the opposite is true: in the last year, people have decreased the frequency of
gambling activities, the number of
gambling activities participated in and the amount of money
gambled.
«This suggests that in the healthy brain, the insula may be a critical area in generating these distorted expectancies
during gambling play, and that interventions to reduce insula
activity may have treatment potential.
In general, though,
gambling can be a fun and entertaining
activity - the same source notes it was enjoyed by 70 per cent of Australians in some form
during 2009, as per their latest data.