Shane W. Kraus

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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Director, UNLV Behavioral Addictions Lab

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UNLV School of Medicine

Expertise: Addiction, Substance Use, Gambling, Veteran Mental Health, Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Psychopathology

Biography

Shane W. Kraus is a licensed clinical psychologist and expert in psychopathology (the study of mental or behavioral disorders), sexual trauma, substance use disorders, gambling disorders, addictions, and compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD).

An associate professor of psychology, Kraus uses behavioral, epidemiological, and neurobiological methods to assess factors that contribute to the development of addictive behaviors and other co-occurring psychiatric disorders among at-risk groups.

He has published extensively on sexual behavior and was part of the World Health Organization working group who put forth the diagnostic criteria for CSBD for ICD-11. His gambling research is also exploring effective screening approaches for identifying individuals with problem gambling.

Education

B.S. Criminology, California State University, Fresno (2003)
M.A. Forensic Psychology, Castleton University (2007)
PHD Clinical Psychology, Bowling Green State University (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry (2016)

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Before you read this, please be sure you are sitting down. What you are about to learn is so shocking that you might need some time to recover. Researchers from UNLV and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have found that sports bettors are more likely to binge drink than non-gamblers or those who partake in different types of gambling.