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Steffi E Rothenberger1, Franz Resch, Nora Doszpod

  • 1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Blumenstr. 8, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany. steffi.rothenberger@med.uni-heidelberg.de

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