Childhood-onset schizophrenia: Diagnostic and treatment challenges

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 33-36

  Khurana, Anita ^a   Aminzadeh, Arastou ^a   Bostic, Jeff Q ^b,c,e   Pataki, Caroly ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

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