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Brief report| Volume 26, ISSUE 6, P634-636, October 1989

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The effect of oral dextroamphetamine on plasma cortisol in major depressive disorder

  • E.D Myers
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    From the Department of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Keele, North Staffordshire, England
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