Compulsive Feather Picking in Birds

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 857-

  Grindlinger, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; COMPULSION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIRD DISEASES; CLOMIPRAMINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSITTACINES;

EID: 0025943912     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1991.01810330081012     Document Type: Letter

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