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Pharmacological interventions for schizotypal personality disorder
Saeed Farooq1, Birgit A Völlm2, Nusrat Husain3
1Postgraduate Medical Institute, Kyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
|October 1, 2014
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This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To evaluate the effects of pharmacological interventions for people with Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SzPD).
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