Why We Become Addicted to Gambling - Dr. Timothy Fong - #7
Dr. Timothy Fong is a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, board-certified in addiction psychiatry. He is the co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program and has spent 25 years studying gambling disorder and its impact on the brain.
You can be stone cold sober, look perfectly fine, and still be in the grip of a serious addiction. That is what makes gambling disorder unlike almost anything else in psychiatry. There is no blood test, no smell, no visible intoxication. Just a brain doing exactly what addiction brains do, hidden behind a…
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