Adding antidepressants to antipsychotics for treatment of subsyndromal depressive symptoms in schizophrenia: Impact on positive and negative symptoms
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0019-5545
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.111452