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Schizophrenia: fixed incidence or fixed thinking?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

E. F. Torrey
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 285 - 287
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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Address for correspondence: Dr E. Fuller Torrey, Twin Studies Unit, NIMH, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC 20032, USA.

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