New Study Sheds Light On Gambling Addicts' Decision MakingGambling Addicts Present Brain Function Abnormalities |
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Some new gambling addiction research has come out linking some similarities between the aforementioned disease and cocaine addiction.
Researchers from the University of Granada have been studying how those addictions affect decision making abilities, formed in the prefrontal cortex.
The results were interesting, but perhaps expected. The authors wrote, “these bad decisions affect the individuals’ ability to recognise and evaluate loss, even when this is not financial loss.”
According to ScienceDaily.com, the research also “found that the tendency to take bad decisions increased significantly when [subjects] experienced negative emotions such as anxiety or sadness.”
The data will be used to help treat problem gamblers.
The importance of keeping gambling as a form of entertainment was also recently backed up in a Wall Street Journal piece highlighting research on how often gamblers actually win.
On any given day a gambler could be expected to be a winner around 30 percent of the time, but as the time increases it drops to around 11 percent and most win less than a measly $150.
Gambling addiction has been one of the main arguments against online games coming to areas in the United States. However, industry folks make the case that the Internet actually provides casinos with more information to spot problem gamblers.
Online gambling is underway in Nevada and Delaware. New Jersey is expected to kick off its games later this month. All three have legal online poker.
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