A 39-Year-Old "Adultolescent": Understanding Social Withdrawal in Japan

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; the Brain Research Unit, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka; the VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oreg.; and the Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.

Case Reports

Takahiro A Kato et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2016.

. 2016 Feb 1;173(2):112-4.

doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15081034.

¹ From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; the Brain Research Unit, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka; the VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oreg.; and the Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.

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