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The Dexamethasone Suppression Test

Fact and Artefact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Louise Braddock
Louise Braddock*
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University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Littlemore Hospital, Oxford OX4 4XN
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 363 - 374
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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