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Hospitalization and the cognitive deficits of schizophrenia. The influences of age and education

G Goldstein1, J Zubin, M F Pogue-Geile

  • 1VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206.

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
|April 1, 1991
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