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No time to lose: onset and treatment delay for mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2012

G. Thornicroft
G. Thornicroft*
Affiliation:
Health Service and Population Research Department, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK Fax: +00 44 207 277 1462
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(E-mail: graham.thornicroft@kcl.ac.uk)
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Keywords

Early onset psychosisfirst episodeaccessbarriersstigmadiscriminationuntreated duration
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 59 - 61
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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