期刊论文

Zhou, XH

英文

FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY

1664-0640

2025

16

1511168

10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1511168

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article.This work was financially supported by the Clinical Research Center For Addiction Disorder in Hunan Province (No. 2023SK4055), the Scientific Research Project of the Hunan Health Commission (No. A202303096949), the Foundation of Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (No. B2024102), Hunan Provincial Health High-Level Talent Scientific Research Project (No. R2023178), National Cultivation Project of Key Clinical Specialty (Addiction medicine), Hunan Province clinical key specialty (Addiction medicine), Key Clinical Specialty Construction Project of the Hunan Health Commission (Improvement of Diagnosis and Treatment Ability of Severe Psychiatric Diseases in Hunan Province).

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