Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 317-324 , September 2004

Persistence and stability of delusions over time

  • Paul S. Appelbaum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655 USA
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  • Pamela Clark Robbins

      Affiliations

    • Policy Research Associates Inc, Delmar, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Roumen Vesselinov

      Affiliations

    • Policy Research Associates Inc, Delmar, NY, USA

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☆ Supported by funding from the Research Network on Mental Health and the Law of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and by NIMH Grant No. RO1 49696. P.S.A. was supported in part by a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, funded by the Center’s Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry and NSF Grant No. SBR-9022192.

PII: S0010-440X(04)00065-3

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.06.001

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 317-324 , September 2004

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