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Commentary on: Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research: On the slippery slopes: The case of gambling addiction

Billieux et al. (2015) propose that the recent proliferation of behavioral addictions has been driven by deficiencies in the underlying research strategy. This commentary considers how pathological gambling (now termed gambling disorder) traversed these challenges to become the first recognized beha...

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Autor principal: Clark, Luke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26551898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.014
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description Billieux et al. (2015) propose that the recent proliferation of behavioral addictions has been driven by deficiencies in the underlying research strategy. This commentary considers how pathological gambling (now termed gambling disorder) traversed these challenges to become the first recognized behavioral addiction in the DSM-5. Ironically, many similar issues continue to exist in research on gambling disorder, including question-marks over the validity of tolerance, heterogeneity in gambling motives, and the under-specification of neuroimaging biomarkers. Nevertheless, I contend that the case for gambling disorder as a behavioral addiction has been bolstered by the existence of clear and consistent functional impairment (primarily in the form of debt), coupled with the development of a public health approach that has given emphasis to product features (i.e. the structural characteristics of gambling forms) as much as individual dispositions (the ‘addictive personality’).
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spelling pubmed-46276692015-11-23 Commentary on: Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research: On the slippery slopes: The case of gambling addiction Clark, Luke J Behav Addict Commentary Billieux et al. (2015) propose that the recent proliferation of behavioral addictions has been driven by deficiencies in the underlying research strategy. This commentary considers how pathological gambling (now termed gambling disorder) traversed these challenges to become the first recognized behavioral addiction in the DSM-5. Ironically, many similar issues continue to exist in research on gambling disorder, including question-marks over the validity of tolerance, heterogeneity in gambling motives, and the under-specification of neuroimaging biomarkers. Nevertheless, I contend that the case for gambling disorder as a behavioral addiction has been bolstered by the existence of clear and consistent functional impairment (primarily in the form of debt), coupled with the development of a public health approach that has given emphasis to product features (i.e. the structural characteristics of gambling forms) as much as individual dispositions (the ‘addictive personality’). Akadémiai Kiadó 2015-09 2015-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4627669/ /pubmed/26551898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.014 Text en © 2015 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26551898
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