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Psychotic disorders as an adverse effect of levetiracetam or discontinuation of mood stabilising drugs

Katarzyna Kurczych
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Agnieszka Makulska
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,
Iwona Kurkowska-Jastrzębska
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  1. Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw
Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii 2020, 36 (2), 155–163
Online publish date: 2021/12/06
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