Behavioral addictions

T W Robbins; L Clark

doi:10.1016/j.conb.2014.09.005

Behavioral addictions

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Feb:30:66-72. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.09.005. Epub 2014 Sep 26.

Authors

T W Robbins¹, L Clark²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: twr2@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Psychology and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

PMID: 25262209
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.09.005

Abstract

Behavioral addictions are slowly becoming recognized as a valid category of psychiatric disorder as shown by the recent allocation of pathological gambling to this category in DSM-5. However, several other types of psychiatric disorder proposed to be examples of behavioral addictions have yet to be accorded this formal acknowledgment and are dispersed across other sections of the DSM-5. This brief review marks this important point in the evolution of this concept and looks to future investigation of behavioral addictions with the theoretical frameworks currently being used successfully to investigate substance addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder, in a potentially new spectrum of impulsive-compulsive disorders.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Behavior, Addictive* / classification
Behavior, Addictive* / diagnosis
Behavior, Addictive* / psychology
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Gambling / psychology*
Humans
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology*
Substance-Related Disorders / psychology*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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