Neuropsychological performance, impulsivity, and comorbid psychiatric illness in patients with pathological gambling undergoing treatment at the CORE inpatient treatment center

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-43

  Patterson II, James C ^a,b   Holland, Janet ^a   Middleton, Reece ^a  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Comorbidity; Impulse control; Orbitofrontal cortex; Pathologic gambling

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOSIS; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 33644868041     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000197583.24072.f5     Document Type: Article

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