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Using empirically-derived dimensional phenotypes to accelerate clinical neuroscience: the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) framework

NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (2020)

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NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Volume 45, Issue 7, Pages 1083-1085

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DOI: 10.1038/s41386-020-0639-6

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