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The Pharmacological Treatment of Ocd

Since the early 1980s, several potent serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SRIs) have been studied extensively in OCD. Aggregate statistics for all SRIs suggest that 70% of treatment-naive patients will improve at least moderately.




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