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Weyburn Assessment Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. B. Blewett
Affiliation:
Services Branch, Department of Public Health, Saskatchewan, Canada
W. B. Stefaniuk
Affiliation:
Saskatchewan Committee for Schizophrenia Research

Extract

Some time ago the Department of National Health and Welfare of the Government of Canada became interested in the therapeutic effects of a preparation of nucleotides in the treatment of mental illness. It was decided that the research group from the Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn, should assess the usefulness of the preparation in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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