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J Caring Sci. 2020;9(4): 195-202. doi: 10.34172/jcs.2020.030
PMID: 33409163        PMCID: PMC7770387

Original Research

Behavioral Activation Therapy on Reward Seeking Behaviors in Depressed People: An Experimental study

Alireza Karimpour-Vazifehkhorani 1 ORCID, Abbas Bakhshipour Rudsari 1 ORCID, Akram Rezvanizadeh 2 ORCID, Leila Kehtary- Harzang 1 ORCID, Kamyar Hasanzadeh 3 * ORCID

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