Should schizophrenia still be named so?

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 305-306

  Maruta, Toshimasa ^a   Volpe, Umberto ^b,d   Gaebel, Wolfgang ^c,e   Matsumoto, Chihiro ^a   Iimori, Makio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d European Psychiatric Association   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; ICD-11; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIGMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RENAMING; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84891627899     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.11.005     Document Type: Letter

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