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The anatomy of melancholia: does frontal-subcortical pathophysiology underpin its psychomotor and cognitive manifestations?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Marie-Paule Austin  and
Philip Mitchell
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , July 1995 , pp. 665 - 672
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