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What is the incidence of conversion pseudodementia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Paolo Liberini ,
Lucia Faglia ,
Flavio Salvi  and
Robert P. Grant
Paolo Liberini
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, USSL 38 Lombardia, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy
Lucia Faglia
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, USSL 38 Lombardia, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy
Flavio Salvi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, USSL 38 Lombardia, Gardone Val Trompia, Italy
Robert P. Grant
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 124 - 125
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