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Organic psychoses simulating dementia praecox

Report of two cases with brain biopsy studies

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, New York, N. Y.

    Phillip Polatin M. D., Victor W. Eisenstein M. D. & S. Eugene Barrera M. D.

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Polatin, P., Eisenstein, V.W. & Barrera, S.E. Organic psychoses simulating dementia praecox. Psych Quar 18, 391–412 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01575799

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