
To those on both sides of the perpetual “nature vs. nurture” debate and to those who deny the usefulness of such a rigid dichotomy, recent work by geneticist David Comings will be of particular interest. His recent study, “The Molecular Genetics of Pathological Gambling,” provides insight that will pique the interest of researchers and clinicians across a wide spectrum of disciplines.1 There is always a danger of reductionism when trying to distill and discuss etiological research (and genetics, in particular), but his major findings can be summarized as thus: 1) Pathological gambling is a spectrum disorder; that is, a disorder... Read more →