A critique of 'organic' and its proposed alternatives

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-170

  Sachdev, Perminder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030010881     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679609076090     Document Type: Short Survey

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