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Response Inhibition and Deviant Social Behaviour in Adult Mental Defectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gordon R. Lowe  and
Usha Saggar
Gordon R. Lowe
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee. (Department of Psychology, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario)
Usha Saggar
Affiliation:
Strathmartine Hospital, Dundee
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Extract

This investigation is an extension of a study carried out recently (Lowe, 1966) with educationally subnormal school children.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 550 , September 1971 , pp. 295 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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