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Brief report| Volume 20, ISSUE 5, P570-572, May 1985

A study of the TRH test in a family with psychiatric illness: A reflection on the TRH test as a state-trait marker

  • James C. Garbutt
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Clinical Research Unit, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC, USA
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  • John K. Hsiao
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Clinical Research Unit, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC, USA
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  • James P. Mayo Jr.
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Clinical Research Unit, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC, USA
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  • Jill Blacharsh
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Clinical Research Unit, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC, USA
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