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Lucid Intervals in Catatonia: A Neuropsychiatric Snare for the Unwary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Karel W. De Pauw
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Department, Leicester General Hospital Gwendolen Road Leicester LE5 4PW
T. Krystyna Szulecka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Bassetlaw District General Hospital Worksop Notts S81 0BD
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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