Gambling disorder is a behavioral addiction characterized by persistent and recurrent problematic gambling that leads to significant distress or impairment, including a need to gamble with increasing amounts of money to achieve the desired excitement, unsuccessful efforts to cut back, and continued gambling despite negative consequences to relationships, employment or finances. It was reclassified in the DSM-5 in 2013 from an impulse control disorder to the first behavioral addiction recognized alongside substance use disorders, reflecting evidence that it shares clinical features and brain mechanisms with substance addiction.
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ICD-10 ChapterV: Mental and Behavioural Disorders 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Sources
1. Wikipedia: Problem gambling
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Problem gambling may be diagnosed as a mental disorder according to the DSM-5 if certain diagnostic criteria are met.
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They both activate a reward mechanism in the brain, causing dopamine release to reinforce repetitive behavior.
Lead section, transmission-route statement
Problem gambling may be diagnosed as a mental disorder according to the DSM-5 if certain diagnostic criteria are met.
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Mental and behavioural disorders
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