Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 523-529 , November 2008

Sex differences in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: a 20-year longitudinal study of psychosis and recovery

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☆ This study was supported, in part, by US Public Health Service grants MH-26341 and MH-068688 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD (Dr Harrow).

PII: S0010-440X(08)00053-9

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.03.004

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 523-529 , November 2008

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