Prenatal antidepressant use: Time for a pregnant pause?

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 69-72

  Pies, Ronald ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 33845793480     PISSN: 08932905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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