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Anna Fernández1, Juan Angel Bellón Saameño, Alejandra Pinto-Meza

  • 1Sant Joan de Déu-SSM, Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, Research and Development Unit, Dr. Antoni Pujadas, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. afernandez@sjd-ssm.com

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|April 2, 2010
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