Title Long - term exposure to methylmercury and psychiatric symptoms in residents of
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, 10 Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 3-112-12 East, Boston, MA 02215, USA Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Okayama University Graduate School of 15 Environmental Science, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan Department of Social Welfare Studies, Kumamoto Gakuen University, 2-5-1 Ooe, Kumamoto, 862-8680, Japan
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