Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 83-87 , March 2003

Psychopathology among persons responding to participation as normal controls in behavioral research studies

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 83-87 , March 2003