Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Expanding the range of vulnerabilities to pathological gambling: A consideration of over-fast discounting processes

Carl W. Lejueza1 and Marc N. Potenzaa2

a1 Department of Psychology, Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

a2 Department of Psychiatry and Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519. clejuez@psyc.umd.edu www.addiction.umd.edu marc.potenza@yale.edu www.med.yale.edu/psych/faculty/potenza.html

Abstract

Redish et al. present a compelling, interdisciplinary, unified framework of addiction. The effort to integrate pathological gambling is especially important, but only the vulnerability of misclassifying situations is described in detail as being linked directly to this disorder. This commentary focuses on further developing the comprehensiveness of this framework for pathological gambling using over-fast discounting as an illustrative example.

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