Caltech's John O'Doherty is on a quest to understand how human brains make decisions: how they gather evidence about their environments and their own impacts on these environments and then apply this ...

The brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to near misses than casual gamblers, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. The results could help explain what keeps problem ...

The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men. Are recovery efforts for problem gamblers lagging behind? By Erik Vance For this story, Erik Vance spoke to scientists, advocates, ...

Two years after sports betting was legalized in Massachusetts, a rapidly growing share of bettors in the state describe themselves as “problem” or “pathological” gamblers and say gambling has damaged ...

Researchers analyzed millions of electronic health records and found a major difference between states that greenlit sports ...

Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online today than just a few years ago. And as online platforms make gambling easier and more convenient, some Pennsylvanians are gambling more ...

Gambling dominates sports now to the extent that a recent Washington Post analysis of 50 hours of televised professional and ...