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Mood and behavioral changes associated with the use of the oral contraceptive agents

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    Ira D. Glick (Captain, M.C. Chief)

  2. Psychiatry Service, USAH Special Treatment Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia, USA

    Ira D. Glick (Captain, M.C. Chief)

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This paper was read, in part, at the Symposium “Recent Advances in Psychiatry” sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, at Miami Beach, December 1965.

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Glick, I.D. Mood and behavioral changes associated with the use of the oral contraceptive agents. Psychopharmacologia 10, 363–374 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403976

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