When Improving Symptoms Is Not Enough-Is It Time for Next-Generation Interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

David Mataix-Cols1,2, Lorena Fernández de la Cruz1,2, Christian Rück1,2

  • 1Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

JAMA Psychiatry
|September 12, 2019
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