Biological clocks and the practice of psychiatry

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Table I. Facts and definitions in chronobiology.

Table II. Possible changes in human chronobiology.

Table III. Chronobiology and the frontier of disorders.

Table IV Arguments in favor of chronobiological changes in mood

Table V. Arguments against chronobiological changes in mood disorders.

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