Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 452-457 , September 2007

Comparison of personality risk factors in bulimia nervosa and pathological gambling

  • Eva M. Álvarez-Moya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
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  • Susana Jiménez-Murcia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    • CIBER: CB06/03/0034
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 93 260 79 88; fax: +34 93 260 76 58.
    • ,
  • Roser Granero

      Affiliations

    • Autonoma University of Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Julio Vallejo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Isabel Krug

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Cynthia M. Bulik

      Affiliations

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    • ,
  • Fernando Fernández-Aranda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
    • CIBER: CB06/03/0034

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PII: S0010-440X(07)00031-4

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.03.008

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 452-457 , September 2007

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