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. 2015 Feb;14(1):94-6.
doi: 10.1002/wps.20194.

Recovery, not progressive deterioration, should be the expectation in schizophrenia

Robert B Zipursky  1 , Ofer Agid
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Recovery, not progressive deterioration, should be the expectation in schizophrenia

Robert B Zipursky et al. World Psychiatry. 2015 Feb.
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