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Active placebos in antidepressant trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

J. M. Cooney
J. M. Cooney*
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 172 , Issue 6 , June 1998 , pp. 541 - 542
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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