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Case 3 - The depressed bipolar patient on multiple medications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

By
Dale Hoang ,
Catherine Ha  and
Peter Hauser
Edited by
Takesha Cooper ,
Gerald Maguire  and
Stephen Stahl
Takesha Cooper
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Gerald Maguire
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Stephen Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , pp. 25 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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