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Lorena Rami1, Miquel Bernardo, Manuel Valdes

  • 1Clinic Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology, Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, and Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Schizophrenia Bulletin
|June 5, 2004
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