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Frontal Lobe Function and the African

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. C. Carothers
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In a previous article—” A Study of Mental Derangement in Africans “—the writer described primitive African culture, thinking and attitude to life, and the types of mental derangement seen in Kenya over a 5-year period, and endeavoured to explain the peculiarities in the incidence and nature of African mental derangement on the basis of cultural factors.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 97 , Issue 406 , January 1951 , pp. 12 - 48
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1951 

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