Pathological gambling: etiology, comorbidity, and treatment

1. Foundations for understanding. Introduction

Terminology, prevalence rates, and types of gambling

Assessment

2. Etiology. Demographic correlates

Comorbidity of disordered gambling and other psychiatric disorders

Neurobiology and genetics

3. Research on interventions. Pharmacotherapies

Recovery without professional interventions

Therapy for families and significant others

Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic treatments

Early behavioral treatments

Cognitive biases and cognitive therapy

4. A treatment model

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Brief and motivational interventions

5. Conclusions. Prevention: focus on gambling in youth and young adults

Conclusions.