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Lithium Revisited: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Guy M. Goodwin
Guy M. Goodwin*
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MRC Brain Metabolism Unit, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 167 , Issue 5 , November 1995 , pp. 573 - 574
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Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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