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Using the Activity-based Anorexia Rodent Model to Study the Neurobiological Basis of Anorexia Nervosa
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Using the Activity-based Anorexia Rodent Model to Study the Neurobiological Basis of Anorexia Nervosa

Published on: October 22, 2015

Subclinical anorexia nervosa

E J Button, A Whitehouse

    Psychological Medicine
    |August 1, 1981
    PubMed

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