AT ISSUE Methodological Issues in Negative Symptom Trials
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Stephen R. Marder, David G. Daniel, Larry Alphs, A. George Awad, and Richard S. E. Keefe The Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California, Los Angeles and the Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education, andClinical Center, LosAngeles, CA; United BioSource Corporation,Mclean, VA; Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs; University of Toronto and Department of Psychiatry, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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