European Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 140-148 , January 2011

The effect of acute citalopram on face emotion processing in remitted depression: A pharmacoMRI study

Received 5 April 2010 ,Revised 29 May 2010 ,Accepted 12 June 2010.

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European Neuropsychopharmacology
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