Why do antidepressants take so long to work? A cognitive neuropsychological model of antidepressant drug action

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  British Journal of Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.051193PMID 19648538
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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