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Effects of acute food deprivation on eating behavior in eating disorders

M M Hetherington1, S A Stoner, A E Andersen

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. m.m.hetherington@dundee.ac.uk

The International Journal of Eating Disorders
|August 16, 2000
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