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Bartova, L., Lanzenberger, R., Rujescu, D. et al. Reply to: “The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence” published by Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, Amendola S, Hengartner MP, Horowitz MA in Molecular Psychiatry (2022 Jul 20. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01661-0). Mol Psychiatry 28, 3153–3154 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02093-0
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