作者: Jon E. Grant , R. Andrew Chambers , Marc N. Potenza
关键词: High prevalence 、 Risk behavior 、 Adolescent psychiatry 、 Ventral tegmental area 、 Treatment strategy 、 Medicine 、 Nucleus accumbens 、 Pathological 、 Clinical psychology
摘要: Despite the high prevalence rates of pathological gambling in adolescents, research on this disorder is still its infancy. Our understanding neurodevelopmental changes that occur during adolescence, and their influence adolescent behaviors, at an early stage. Longitudinal studies involving neuro-imaging, genetics, behavioral assessments should help advance our with come advances prevention treatment strategies for problems frequently experienced by including risk behaviors such as gambling.