Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Somatoform Disorders
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Psychobiological perspectives on somatoform disorders.
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0893-133X,1740-634X
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1380112