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Can you tell me how is the brain and neurological systen affected by gambling addiction?
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Nothing structural: But the function of the brain is altered by pathological gambling in ways that are similar to other kinds of addictions, with changes in the reward pathways in the limbic system that look very much like (on pet scans or functional mris) what you see in drug addiction.
Answered 5/6/2014
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