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. 1988 Feb;77(2):163-5.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb05094.x.

Depressed pathological gamblers

A Roy  1 , R Custer, V Lorenz, M Linnoila
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Depressed pathological gamblers

A Roy et al. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1988 Feb.

Abstract

Depressed gamblers (n = 14) were compared with normal controls (n = 41) for antecedent life events. The depressed gamblers had experienced significantly more life events, and undesirable or exit life events, during the 6 months before the onset of depression.

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