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. 2022 Mar;64(Suppl 1):S25-S34.
doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_696_21. Epub 2022 Mar 22.

Mental capacity including testamentary capacity

Pronob Kumar Dalal  1 , Adarsh Tripathi  1 , Sujita Kumar Kar  1 , Choudhary Laxmi Narayan  2 , Abhay Matkar  3
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Mental capacity including testamentary capacity

Pronob Kumar Dalal et al. Indian J Psychiatry. 2022 Mar.
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Figure 1
Relevance of mental capacity in various psycho-social domains
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Domains of mental capacity assessment
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