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The EEG in Three Cases of Periodic Catatonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. R. Gjessing
Affiliation:
Chief of Laboratory, Dikemark Hospital, Asker, Norway
G. F. A. Harding
Affiliation:
Neuropsychology Unit, Applied Psychology Department, College House, University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham 4, England
F. A. Jenner
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham; now at Department of Psychiatry, The University, Whiteley Wood Clinic, Sheffield 10, England
N. B. Johannessen
Affiliation:
Dikemark Hospital, Asker, Norway

Extract

As a result of three decades of painstaking work, R. Gjessing (1932–1960) published ten classical Beiträge zur Somatologie der periodischen Katatonie. These studies are being continued by L. R. Gjessing (1956, 1958, 1964, 1965) on some of the original patients and on additional subjects.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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