Placebo-controlled studies in depression: necessary, ethical and feasible
✍ Scribed by David Baldwin; Karl Broich; Jürgen Fritze; Siegfried Kasper; Herman Westenberg; Hans-Jürgen Möller
- Book ID
- 106085023
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Volume
- 253
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-8491
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