[Neurobiology of pathological gambling].

Pathological Gambling: Neurobiology and Pharmacological Treatment

The neurobiology of impulse control disorders Neurobiologia dos transtornos do controle dos impulsos

Abst rac t Objective: To review the neurobiological substrates of impulse control disorders. Pathological gambling is a main focus of the review in that most biological studies of the formal impulse control disorders have examined this disorder. Method: The medical database Medline from 1966 to present was searched to identify relevant articles that were subsequently reviewed to generate this m...

The neurobiology of pathological gambling and drug addiction: an overview and new findings

Gambling is a prevalent recreational behaviour. Approximately 5% of adults have been estimated to experience problems with gambling. The most severe form of gambling, pathological gambling (PG), is recognized as a mental health condition. Two alternate non-mutually exclusive conceptualizations of PG have considered it as an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder and a ‘behavioural’ addiction. T...

Review. The neurobiology of pathological gambling and drug addiction: an overview and new findings.

Gambling is a prevalent recreational behaviour. Approximately 5% of adults have been estimated to experience problems with gambling. The most severe form of gambling, pathological gambling (PG), is recognized as a mental health condition. Two alternate non-mutually exclusive conceptualizations of PG have considered it as an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder and a 'behavioural' addiction. T...

Ventral striatal dopamine synthesis capacity is associated with individual differences in behavioral disinhibition

Pathological gambling, alongside addictive and antisocial disorders, forms part of a broad psychopathological spectrum of externalizing disorders, which share an underlying genetic vulnerability. The shared externalizing propensity is a highly heritable, continuously varying trait. Disinhibitory personality traits such as impulsivity and novelty seeking (NS) function as indicators of this broad...