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Taya Varteresian1, Helen Lavretsky1
1Dr. Varteresian is a psychiatrist with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and Assistant Clinical Professor (volunteer) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Lavretsky is a Professor of Psychiatry, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles.
Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)
|January 25, 2020
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