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Bupropion Treatment of Serotonin Reuptake Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and VA Medical Center, 29401, Charleston, South Carolina

    Lawrence A. Labbate

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 20307, Washington, D.C.

    Jamie B. Grimes & Allan Hines

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts

    Mark H. Pollack

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Labbate, L.A., Grimes, J.B., Hines, A. et al. Bupropion Treatment of Serotonin Reuptake Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction. Ann Clin Psychiatry 9, 241–245 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022356427242

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