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A spectrum model for mood disorders: a useful approach in clinical psychiatry in search of an assessment methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Giovanni B. Cassano  and
Stefano Pini
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 156 - 162
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