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Body Build and Urinary Steroid Excretion in Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alec Coppen ,
Thelma Julian ,
D. E. Fry  and
Vincent Marks
Alec Coppen
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Carshalton, and West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
Thelma Julian
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Carshalton, and West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
D. E. Fry
Affiliation:
Area Laboratory, West Park Hospital
Vincent Marks
Affiliation:
Area Laboratory, West Park Hospital
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Although abnormalities in physique in mental patients have been reported many times (see review by Rees, 1960) their cause and significance are obscure. Rey and Coppen (1959) reported the results of an investigation into the physique of mental patients using a measure of sexual maturation known as the androgyny score (Tanner, 1951, 1962).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 496 , March 1967 , pp. 269 - 275
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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