Mixed-handedness in patients with functional psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 168, Issue FEB., 1996, Pages 234-236

  Malesu, R R ^a,b   Cannon, M ^b   Jones, P B ^b   McKenzie, K ^b   Gilvarry, K ^b   Rifkin, L ^b   Toone, B K ^b   Murray, R M ^c  

^a Psychiatric Hospital   (Barbados)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0030051611     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.168.2.234     Document Type: Article

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