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Comment| Volume 20, ISSUE 10, P1127-1131, October 1985

Normal pressure hydrocephalus and psychiatric patients

  • Mantosh J. Dewan
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. Mantosh J. Dewan, Department of Psychiatry, Upstate Medical Center, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210.
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York and VA Medical Center, Syracuse, USA
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  • Peter Anthony Bick
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    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(85)90012-5
Normal pressure hydrocephalus and psychiatric patients
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      Article info

      Publication history

      Received in revised form: May 13, 1985
      Received: December 14, 1984

      Footnotes

      ☆A revised version of this paper was presented at the annual American Psychiatric Association Meeting, Los Angeles, May 1984.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(85)90012-5

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      © 1985 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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