[Personality in old age]

H Förstl1, R Perneczky, A Karenberg

  • 1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Technische Universität München, 81675 München. hans.foerstl@lrz.tu-muenchen.de

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|October 28, 2009
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