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Antidepressant Drugs and Excessive Weight Gain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Frank Winston  and
Michael L. McCann
Frank Winston
Affiliation:
313 Price Place, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 53705
Michael L. McCann
Affiliation:
Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 53706
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 559 , June 1972 , pp. 693 - 694
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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