Multisite international collaborative clinical trials in mania.
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Gustavo Vázquez, Ross J. Baldessarini, Ayşegül Yildiz, Jorge Tamayo, Leonardo Tondo and Paola Salvatore 1 Department of Neuroscience, Palermo University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA 3 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4 Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey 5 Department of Psychiatry, CES University, Medellı́n, Colombia 6 Lucio Bini Mood Disorder Center, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy 7 Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology
دوره 14 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011