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Are anxiety disorders undertreated in patients with multiple sclerosis?

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boxed-textKorostil M and Feinstein A (2007) Anxiety disorders and their clinical correlates in multiple sclerosis patients. Multiple Sclerosis 13: 67–72

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  1. D Aarsland is Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Psychiatry at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, and Director of Neuropsychiatric Research at the Norwegian Centre for Movement Disorders, Stavanger University Hospital,

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  2. N Figved is a Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.,

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