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1Steven D. Targum, MD, is the scientific director at Clintara LLC, the chief medical officer at Methylation Sciences Inc., BrainCells Inc., and Functional Neuromodulation Inc., the chief medical advisor at Prana Biotechnology Ltd., and a consultant in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Prof. Oleh Chaban is the director of the Clinic for Borderline Conditions at the Scientific Research Institute of Social and Forensic Psychiatry and Narcology in Kiev, the vice president of the Ukrainian Association of Psychotherapists and Psychoanalytics, and an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of High School in the Ukraine. Dr. Serhiy Mykhnyak is a psychiatrist and researcher at the Lviv District Clinical Psychiatric Hospital in the Ukraine.
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