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Psychotic episodes during menstruation in a 12-year-old girl: a case of menstrual psychosis

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Nußbaumstraße 5a, 80336, Munich, Germany

    Barbara Dorothea Grünewald, Alexander Korte & Gerd Schulte-Körne

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Grünewald, B.D., Korte, A. & Schulte-Körne, G. Psychotic episodes during menstruation in a 12-year-old girl: a case of menstrual psychosis. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 21, 173–175 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-012-0242-4

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