Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 507-509 , December 2000

Sociopolitical events and technical innovations may affect the content of delusions and the course of psychotic disorders

Received 30 December 1999 ,Accepted 22 February 2000.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1102

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 507-509 , December 2000

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