ReviewHarvard review of psychiatry
Gambling disorder and other behavioral addictions: recognition and treatment.
Review in Harvard review of psychiatry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04738773 (Double Blind 12-week Controlled Experiment With Two Groups of Pathological Gamblers, One Taking Active Drug), which is not on this map. Cited by 117 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Double Blind 12-week Controlled Experiment With Two Groups of Pathological Gamblers, One Taking Active Drug (Naltrexone) and the Other Receiving Placebo.Patters Patterns of Visual Tracking Will be Acessed on Both Groups Prior and During Tratment in Order to Predict Treatment Response
Who cites it
117 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotional Regulation in Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders Treatment: A Systematic Review.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Pooled it
- The association between internet-use-disorder symptoms and loneliness: a systematic review and meta-analysis with a categorical approach.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Eye-Tracking Studies of Gambling-Related Attentional Biases.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Pooled it
- Shared gray matter alterations in individuals with diverse behavioral addictions: A voxel-wise meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Pooled it
- eHealth Intervention for Problematic Internet Use (PIU).Current psychiatry reports · 2016Pooled it
- Trial
- Dissociation of decision-making from escalated drug intake within a long-access model.Behavioural brain research · 2026Article
- State of the Science on Ultra-processed Foods and the Ultra-processed Food Addiction Construct.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Exploring Comorbid Addictive Symptoms in Gambling Disorder: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Alexithymia, and Social Support.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Exploring Gambling-like Behaviors in Children's Cigarette Card Games and Parental Pro-game Perceptions in China: A Qualitative Study.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Gambling Disorder as a Behaviorally Driven Systemic Medical Condition: From Reward Circuitry to Multi-System Morbidity.Clinics and practice · 2026Review
- Therapeutic prospects of bright light therapy in addictive disorders: a scoping review.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Article
- Exploratory Associations of Personality Traits, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and Quality of Life with DSM-Related Symptom Burden in Gambling Disorder.Clinics and practice · 2026Article
- Addiction across substance use, gambling, and screen: a scoping review of coping strategies adopted by concerned significant others.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- Building a Brief Multidomain Questionnaire for Gambling Dual Disorder: Psychometric Validation and RDoC-Based Dimensional Structure.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Internet Addiction and Problem Gambling Among Japanese University Students: Comorbidity and Lifestyle Correlates.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Assessment of Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Gambling Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Clinics and practice · 2026Review
- Unraveling the Impact of Early Adversity and Perpetration on Problematic Gambling in Young Adults: Insights from the Add Health Study.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Rethinking Gaming Disorder Prevention: A Socio-Ecological Model Based on Practitioner Insights.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Reciprocal brain-behavior associations in gambling disorder revealed by theta cordance and directional predictive modeling.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Addiction professionals and the public are recognizing that certain nonsubstance behaviors--such as gambling, Internet use, video-game playing, sex, eating, and shopping--bear resemblance to alcohol and drug dependence. Growing evidence suggests that these behaviors warrant consideration as nonsubstance or "behavioral" addictions and has led to the newly introduced diagnostic category "Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders" in DSM-5. At present, only gambling disorder has been placed in this category, with insufficient data for other proposed behavioral addictions to justify their inclusion. This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of behavioral addictions, describes treatment considerations, and addresses future directions. Current evidence points to overlaps between behavioral and substance-related addictions in phenomenology, epidemiology, comorbidity, neurobiological mechanisms, genetic contributions, responses to treatments, and prevention efforts. Differences also exist. Recognizing behavioral addictions and developing appropriate diagnostic criteria are important in order to increase awareness of these disorders and to further prevention and treatment strategies.
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