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Majid Barekatain1, Leila Jahangard, Mohammad Haghighi

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. barekatain@med.mui.ac.ir

The Journal of ECT
|September 6, 2008
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