Pathological gambling is a nosographic category, object of many disputes; that is whether it belongs to impulse-control disorders or to obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Recently the role played by frontal functioning in this disease has been often stressed. Twenty-seven subjects suffering from pathological gambling have been examined by a wide-spectrum neuropsychological battery of executive functioning tests; that is WSCT, Gambling task, PM38, Towers of London, Trail Making Test, Verbal Judgments Test, Verbal Fluency Test (Phonetic and Semantic) and Stroop Colour Test. Results show abnormal performances in impulse inhibition skill and verbal abstraction, whereas selective attention and planning appear intact.
Neuropsychological features of pathological gambling
C Conversano;
2008-01-01
Abstract
Pathological gambling is a nosographic category, object of many disputes; that is whether it belongs to impulse-control disorders or to obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Recently the role played by frontal functioning in this disease has been often stressed. Twenty-seven subjects suffering from pathological gambling have been examined by a wide-spectrum neuropsychological battery of executive functioning tests; that is WSCT, Gambling task, PM38, Towers of London, Trail Making Test, Verbal Judgments Test, Verbal Fluency Test (Phonetic and Semantic) and Stroop Colour Test. Results show abnormal performances in impulse inhibition skill and verbal abstraction, whereas selective attention and planning appear intact.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
