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Brief report: An autistic male presenting seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and trichotillomania

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  1. Department of Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Kurita

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo University, Japan

    Nobuo Nakayasu

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This study was supported in part by a grant (2A-15-03) from the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan.

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Kurita, H., Nakayasu, N. Brief report: An autistic male presenting seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and trichotillomania. J Autism Dev Disord 24, 687–692 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02172146

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