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Response to benzodiazepines and the clinical course in malignant catatonia associated with schizophrenia
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biological Psychiatry
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0006-3223
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(90)90639-j