Descriptive Psychopathology in People with Mental Retardation

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 232-237

  Cowley, Amy ^a   Holt, Geraldine ^a   Bouras, Nick ^a   Sturmey, Peter ^b   Newton, Jonathon Timothy ^c   Costello, Helen ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DETENTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1542427166     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000116502.43473.fc     Document Type: Article

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