Is Pathological Trading an Overlooked Form of Addiction?

Document Type : Letter(s) to Editor

Authors

1 Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, School of Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

2 - Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, School of Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Catholic University Medical School AND Department of Human Sciences, School of Psychology, Lumsa University, Rome, Italy

Abstract

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