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Depression in old age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Cornelius LE Katona
Cornelius LE Katona*
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University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, UK
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Professor CLE Katona, Professor of Psychiatry of the Elderly, Department of Psychiatry, UCMSM, Middlesex Hospital, Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , November 1991 , pp. 371 - 384
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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