Weight gain in a patient with schizophrenia switched from quetiapine to amisulpride
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Weight gain in patients with schizophrenia treated with risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine or haloperidol: results of the EIRE study.
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1323-1316
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01856.x