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Cluster C personality disorder has no independent effect on striatal dopamine transporter densities in major depression

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, South Karelia Central Hospital, Valto Käkelänkatu 14C, 53130, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Teijamari Laasonen-Balk

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, 70210, Kuopio, Finland

    Teijamari Laasonen-Balk, Heimo Viinamäki & Johannes Lehtonen

  3. Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, 70210, Kuopio, Finland

    Jyrki Kuikka & Minna Husso-Saastamoinen

  4. Computing Centre, University of Kuopio, 70211, Kuopio, Finland

    Pirjo Halonen

  5. Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, Niuvanniemi Hospital, 70240, Kuopio, Finland

    Jari Tiihonen

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Laasonen-Balk, T., Viinamäki, H., Kuikka, J. et al. Cluster C personality disorder has no independent effect on striatal dopamine transporter densities in major depression. Psychopharmacology 155, 113–114 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130100691

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