Pathological gambling and suicidal behavior

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-267

  Pfuhlmann, Bruno ^a   Schmidtke, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aetiology; Epidemiology; Pathological gambling; Suicide risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036882517     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110214145     Document Type: Article

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