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Time, Thyroid and Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter C. Whybrow
Peter C. Whybrow*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 134 , Issue 4 , April 1979 , pp. 444 - 445
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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