Durante il Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Psichiatria a Milano abbiamo incontrato la Dott.ssa Henrietta Bowden-Jones che dirige a Londra la NATIONAL PROBLEM GAMBLING CLINIC unica struttura del Regno Unito che si dedichi in maniera specialistica alla cura della dipendenza patologica dal gioco e gli abbiamo chiesto di raccontare come è organizzato il lavoro suo e della sua equipe. Henrietta Bowden-Jones BIO Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as Consultant psychiatrist in Addictions. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College ( Division of Neurosciences) and is the current co-recipient of a Medical Research Council grant in the area of decision-making and impulsivity. She is the Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic based in Soho, London. The clinic is the first and only NHS multidisciplinary treatment centre in the UK for the treatment of problem gamblers, it has been inundated by hundreds of referrals since its opening in 2008 and holds the only extensive national database on pathological gambling. Henrietta also runs the UK Problem Gambling Research Consortium, a group of 12 researchers from Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford and UCL collaborating on different research projects exploring the neurobiology of pathological gambling. Henrietta belongs to the ICCAM (Imperial, Cambridge, Manchester) neuroscience research group funded by the Medical Resarch …
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