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Georg Juckel1, Nadja Freund2

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Ruhr-University Bochum, LWL-University Hospital, Alexandrinenstr.1, 44791, Bochum, Germany. georg.juckel@rub.de.

Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)
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