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The volumes of subcortical regions in depressed and healthy individuals are strikingly similar: a reinterpretation of the results by Schmaal et al.

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Fried, E., Kievit, R. The volumes of subcortical regions in depressed and healthy individuals are strikingly similar: a reinterpretation of the results by Schmaal et al.. Mol Psychiatry 21, 724–725 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.199

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