Self Control Deficits and Pathological Gambling

The present paper focuses on the concepts of self-control and impulsivity as central features of clinical disorders like pathological gambling. The main purpose is to show the link between models in biopsychology and experiments with animals concerning self-control and models in clinical psychology involving patients with impulse control deficits. A representative model of each of the two research fields is discussed along with empirical studies and their implications for theory and treatment of pathological gambling.