Schizo-nomenclature: A new condition?

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 741-743

  Maruta, Toshimasa ^a,b   Iimori, Makio ^a,c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b International College of Person Centered Medicine   (Switzerland)

^c Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nomenclature; Renaming; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; JAPANESE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STEREOTYPING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 56849087857     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01872.x     Document Type: Article

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