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Received in revised form:
January 23,
1987
Received:
May 8,
1986
The authors thank the staff of the Norris MHCRC and the SBRC for their help during this investigation, and Jill Scheuer for manuscript preparation.Footnotes
☆Supported in part by NIMH Grant MH-30854 to the Norris Mental Health Clinical Research Center at Stanford University and by a grant from the Research Service of the Veterans Administration to the Schizophrenia Biologic Research Center at Palo Alto VA Medical Center.
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© 1987 Published by Elsevier Inc.
