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Antidepressants: too little or too much?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Andrew Thornton  and
Robert Baldwin
Andrew Thornton
Affiliation:
Senior Registrar in Psychiatry of the Elderly
Robert Baldwin
Affiliation:
Consultant Psychiatry for the Elderly, York House, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester M13 9BX, UK.
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Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 123 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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