SynthesisAddiction (Abingdon, England)2012
Compulsive features in behavioural addictions: the case of pathological gambling.
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- A systematic review of treatment for impulsivity and compulsivity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- From coming to terms with the gambling problems to post-traumatic growth: A novel nine-stage theoretical model of recovery from gambling disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Methodological issues in behavioral addictions' research: A call for an unbiased analysis of excessive behaviors.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- A multicenter cross-sectional study of gambling disorder among patients with methamphetamine use disorder in drug rehabilitation centers: prevalence, correlates, and network analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Adaptation and validation of the Turkish version of The Brief Screener for Substance and Behavioral Addiction (SSBA).Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Gambling Severity in Youth Online Gamblers: The Mediating Roles of Internalizing, Attention and Externalizing Problems.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
- A Self-Applied Psychological Treatment for Gambling-Related Problems via The Internet: A Pilot, Feasibility Study.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
- Network analysis of DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder: considering sex differences in a large clinical sample.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Work engagement, impulsivity and, self-efficacy among Polish workers. Moderating role of impulsivity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Divergent risky decision-making and impulsivity behaviors in Lewis rat substrains with low genetic difference.Behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Computational models of behavioral addictions: State of the art and future directions.Addictive behaviors · 2023Review
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- Extended access to fentanyl vapor self-administration leads to addiction-like behaviors in mice: Blood chemokine/cytokine levels as potential biomarkers.Addiction neuroscience · 2023Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by decreased Pavlovian influence on instrumental behavior.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- A Comprehensive Model for Gambling Behaviors: Assessment of the Factors that can Contribute to the Vulnerability and Maintenance of Gambling Disorder.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Editorial: New advancement in network and path-analysis approaches for the study of disorders within the impulse-compulsive spectrum disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Dopamine, behavior, and addiction.Journal of biomedical science · 2021Review
- Discrete Roles for Impulsivity and Compulsivity in Gambling Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Gaming Motivation and Negative Psychosocial Outcomes in Male Adolescents: An Individual-Centered 1-Year Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimsTo describe, in the context of DSM-V, how a focus on addiction and compulsion is emerging in the consideration of pathological gambling (PG).
methodsA systematic literature review of evidence for the proposed re-classification of PG as an addiction.
resultsFindings include: (i) phenomenological models of addiction highlighting a motivational shift from impulsivity to compulsivity associated with a protracted withdrawal syndrome and blurring of the ego-syntonic/ego-dystonic dichotomy; (ii) common neurotransmitter (dopamine, serotonin) contributions to PG and substance use disorders (SUDs); (iii) neuroimaging support for shared neurocircuitries between 'behavioural' and substance addictions and differences between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), impulse control disorders (ICDs) and SUDs; (iv) genetic findings more closely related to endophenotypic constructs such as compulsivity and impulsivity than to psychiatric disorders; (v) psychological measures such as harm avoidance identifying a closer association between SUDs and PG than with OCD; (vi) community and pharmacotherapeutic trials data supporting a closer association between SUDs and PG than with OCD. Adapted behavioural therapies, such as exposure therapy, appear applicable to OCD, PG or SUDs, suggesting some commonalities across disorders.
conclusionsPG shares more similarities with SUDs than with OCD. Similar to the investigation of impulsivity, studies of compulsivity hold promising insights concerning the course, differential diagnosis and treatment of PG, SUDs, and OCD.
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