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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Carl W. Lejuez  and
Marc N. Potenza
Carl W. Lejuez
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Marc N. Potenza
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519. clejuez@psyc.umd.eduwww.addiction.umd.edumarc.potenza@yale.eduwww.med.yale.edu/psych/faculty/potenza.html
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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.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 452 - 453
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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