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Reply to the "Letter to the Editor: How some brain stimulation studies fail to evaluate blinding adequately"
Martin Schecklmann1, Berthold Langguth1
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Journal of Psychiatric Research
|April 2, 2021
Abstract
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