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1 School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry and Mind-Body Interface Laboratory (MBI-Lab), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Biomedicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
2 Department of Psychiatry and Mind-Body Interface Laboratory (MBI-Lab), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
3 School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: ppk11642@gmail.com.
4 Department of Psychiatry and Mind-Body Interface Laboratory (MBI-Lab), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Biomedicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; An-Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: cobolsu@gmail.com.