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Julia Machado Khoury1,2, Maila de Castro Lourenço das Neves1, Marco Antônio Valente Roque1

  • 1a Department of Mental Health , Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) , Belo Horizonte , MG , Brazil.

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry : the Official Journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
|January 24, 2017
PubMed
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Keywords:
Cannabidioladverse effectspharmacotherapypsychiatric disorderspsychiatry

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