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Similar Incidence Worldwide of Schizophrenia: Case not Proven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Janice R. Stevens  and
Richard Jed Wyatt
Janice R. Stevens
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatry Branch Saint Elizabeths Hospital Washington, D.C. 20032, USA
Richard Jed Wyatt
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatry Branch Saint Elizabeths Hospital Washington, D.C. 20032, USA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 1 , July 1987 , pp. 131 - 132
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