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Calcium-channel blockade and depressive illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. H. McAllister-Williams*
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh Medical School, 1 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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