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Therapeutic states and attention deficits: Differential cross-national diagnostics and treatments

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Oliverio, A., Lauderdale, P. Therapeutic states and attention deficits: Differential cross-national diagnostics and treatments. Int J Polit Cult Soc 10, 355–373 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02094508

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