Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 51, Issue 2 , Pages 121-129 , March 2010

Is impulsivity a link between childhood abuse and suicide?

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 Dr Braquehais' work was supported by the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation via one 2008 Short-Term Visiting Fellowship at the New York Psychiatric Institute (Columbia University).

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