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Pin-Liang Chen1, Chih-Wen Yang, Yi-Kuan Tseng

  • 1Pin-Liang Chen, MS, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei; Chih-Wen Yang, MD, Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Su-Ao and Yuanshan Branch, and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei; Yi-Kuan Tseng, PhD, Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Jhongli; Wei-Zen Sun, MD, PhD, Department of Anaesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Jane-Ling Wang, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, California, USA; Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, and Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei; Yen-Jen Oyang, PhD, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, and Graduate Institutes of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei; Jong-Ling Fuh, MD, Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|July 27, 2013
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