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JeanFrançois Costemale-Lacoste1, Raphaël Gaillard, Emmanuelle Corruble

  • 1Service de Psychiatrie d'Adultes, Pôle Neurosciences Tête et Cou, Hopital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France INSERM U1178, Team Depression, Plasticity, and Response to Antidepressants, France jean-francois.costemale-lacoste@bct.aphp.fr Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Paris, France INSERM U894, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France Service de Psychiatrie d'Adultes, Pôle Neurosciences Tête et Cou, Hopital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France INSERM U1178, Team Depression, Plasticity, and Response to Antidepressants, France Service de Psychiatrie d'Adultes, Pôle Neurosciences Tête et Cou, Hopital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France INSERM U894, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Paris, France.

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