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The significance of mania in old age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Kenneth Shulman*
Affiliation:
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
Mauricio Tohen
Affiliation:
McLean Hospital, Harvard Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Andrew Satlin
Affiliation:
McLean Hospital, Harvard Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
*
Kenneth Shulman, Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada.

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Psychiatry of old age
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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