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Perceptual capacity, functions of the corpus striatum and schizophrenia

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  1. Departments of Anatomy and Neurology College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York 32, N. Y.

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A résumé of the author's point of view, referred to in the “Second Conference on the Convergence of Viewpoints on the Causation of Mental Disease” held on June 24–25, 1954 at The New York Academy of Medicine under the auspices of its Committee on Public Health. (In press.)

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Mettler, F.A. Perceptual capacity, functions of the corpus striatum and schizophrenia. Psych Quar 29, 89–111 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01567442

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