Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 399-404 , November 2005

Bipolar family history of the hypomanic symptoms and dimensions of mixed depression

  • Franco Benazzi

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.02.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 399-404 , November 2005

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