Gambling

Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of pathological gambling

Rosenberg O, Klein LD, Dannon PN

Psychiatry Research  ·  2013

Pathological gambling is classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, as an impulse- control disorder. Several studies showed positive preliminary results using TMS to treat addictions. Because TMS is a potential treatment for addictions, and because frontal cortex activity may be abnormal in pathological gamblers compared…