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Pathology, Phenomenology, and the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert W. Kerwin
Robert W. Kerwin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 141
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