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The pineal and psychiatry: still fumbling in the dark?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

P. M. Grasby  and
P J. Cowen
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 1987 , pp. 817 - 820
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