![]() ![]() Studies then showed that the elimination of one criterion (‘illegal activities to finance gambling’) and lowering the threshold for a diagnosis from 5 to 4 fulfilled criteria improved classification accuracy. However, it was still categorized as an impulse control disorder. In DSM-IV, pathological gambling criteria were revised and closely resembled those of substance dependence. The classification and diagnostic criteria of pathological gambling have undergone revisions since then. Pathological gambling has been defined as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). ![]()
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