## Dear Editor I write in response to some of the issues raised by Roth and Kay in their recent review of late paraphrenia (LP) in the Journal (1998; 13: 775Β± 784). The review provides a useful update on LP, including modern epidemiological, neurposychological, brain imaging and postmortem studies
Paraphrenia and Late Paraphrenia
β Scribed by Arata Sato; Shin Ihda
- Book ID
- 109058811
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 583 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1346-3500
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