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The Psychiatric Differentiation of Senility and Arteriosclerosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. P. Birkett
D. P. Birkett*
Affiliation:
Fairfield Hills State Hospital, Newtown, Conn., U.S.A.
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This study compares the mental symptoms of two groups of aged mental hospital patients. One group had senile brain disease but no brain infarcts. The other group had brain infarcts but no positive evidence of senile brain disease.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 556 , March 1972 , pp. 321 - 325
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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