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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Risk-Taking > Gambling
Mental Disorders > Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders > Gambling

Preferred term

Gambling  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Gambling, Pathological
  • Gamblings, Pathological
  • Pathological Gamblings

Scope note

  • An activity distinguished primarily by an element of risk in trying to obtain a desired goal, e.g., playing a game of chance for money.

History note

  • 91(79)68; was see under RISK-TAKING 1979-90; was heading 1968-78

In other languages

  • peliriippuvuus

    Finnish

  • compulsio pignore certandi
  • cupiditas lusoria pathologica
  • ongelmapelaaminen
  • patologinen pelaaminen
  • pelihimo
  • rahapelaaminen
  • spelberoende
  • uhkapelaaminen
  • Spelberoende

    Swedish

  • Hasardspelsyndrom
  • Ludomani
  • Patologiskt spelande
  • Spelmissbruk

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005715

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