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Are neurotransmitters passé? A view from the foothills in response to Rose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

Sameer Jauhar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, IoPPN, King's College, London, UK
Philip J. Cowen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Oxford Health NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
*
Corresponding author: Sameer Jauhar; Email: sameer.jauhar@kcl.ac.uk

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