Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 4 , Pages 263-268 , July 2002

Highly recurrent unipolar may be related to bipolar II

  • Franco Benazzi

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doi: 10.1053/comp.2002.33496

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 43, Issue 4 , Pages 263-268 , July 2002

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