The project meets an urgent need to determine whether the signature characteristic of problem gamblers can be found in their physiological response patterns to win and loss events in a gambling task. The project capitalises on recent scientific advances to capture for the first time, changes in brain waves, heart rate and skin conductance activity to wins and losses during gambling. It is expected that problem gamblers will respond differently than non-problem gamblers, and that these unique patterns will hold the key to the development of an early screening test for problem gambling, a major health and social problem today.
The project meets an urgent need to determine whether the signature characteristic of problem gamblers can be found in their physiological response patterns to win and loss events in a gambling task. The project capitalises on recent scientific advances to capture for the first time, changes in brain waves, heart rate and skin conductance activity to wins and losses during gambling. It is expected that problem gamblers will respond differently than non-problem gamblers, and that these unique patterns will hold the key to the development of an early screening test for problem gambling, a major health and social problem today.