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Antipsychotic polypharmacy: squandering precious resources?
BRAINSTORMS is a monthly section of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry aimed at providing updates of novel concepts emerging from the neurosciences that have relevance to the practicing psychiatrist. From the Neuroscience Education Institute in Carlsbad, Calif., and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Reprint requests to: Stephen M. Stahl, M.D., Ph.D., Editor...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000152730