CBC featured UBC psychology research that shows gambling triggers the same part of the brain as addiction.
Lead study author Eve Limbrick-Oldfield, a psychology postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Gambling Research, said the insula is a poorly understood part of the brain.
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