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TMS – the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2007

K. P. Ebmeier*
Affiliation:
University of OxfordDepartment of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK
L. L. Herrmann
Affiliation:
University of OxfordDepartment of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK
*
*Address for correspondence: Professor K. P. Ebmeier, University of Oxford, Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, OxfordOX3 7JX, UK. (Email: Klaus.ebmeier@psych.ox.ac.uk)

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