Novel therapies for cognitive dysfunction secondary to substance abuse

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 44-48

  Verdejo García, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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