The FDA advisory panel on the reclassification of ECT devices: Unjustified ambivalence

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 16-17

  Kellner, Charles H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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