Although the effectiveness of treatments for pathological gamblers is gaining support, only 10% of pathological gamblers seek treatment. Providing treatment via the Internet may lower the thresholds for treatment seeking. A new telephone and Internet based treatment programme for pathological...

Rasch modelling was conducted by applying the lifetime NODS criteria using data from a national representative sample aged from 15 to 74 years in Norway (<italic>N</italic> = 5235). To a large extent, the results replicated previous findings, supporting the view that the DSM-IV gambling symptoms have a...

We conducted a randomised controlled trial pilot study (<italic>N</italic> = 30) with two treatment groups: (1) Manualised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (<italic>n</italic> = 15) and (2) escitalopram combined with CBT (<italic>n</italic> = 15). Treatment was administered individually and the CBT included weekly sessions for eight...

Pictorial stimuli were presented in a Stroop task paradigm that enabled the recording of attentional bias. The sample comprised 33 pathological slot machine gamblers (PG) and 22 control participants. The design of the study had one between-subjects factor -- Group (PGs vs control), and two...