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Schizophrenia: Some New Aetiological Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. R. J. Burch*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Environmental Radiation Research Unit; Department of Medical Physics, University of Leeds, The General Infirmary, Leeds, I

Extract

In the previous paper (Burch, 1964), I discussed the possible significance of certain statistical features of manic depressive psychosis; in this one I shall consider corresponding statistics relating to schizophrenia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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