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Panic disorder: fact or fiction?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

M. G. Gelder
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 277 - 283
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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Address for correspondence: Professor M. G. Gelder, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford 0X3 7JX.

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