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Fostering early and mid-career research in affective disorders
Tamsyn E Van Rheenen1, Sandra K Davidson2, Francesco Giorlando3
1The Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Early/Mid-Career Researcher Sub-Committee Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Australia tvanrheenen@swin.edu.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
|January 15, 2015
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