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ECT in the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. M. Benbow*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry for the Elderly York House Hathersage Road Manchester
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Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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