Schizophrenia Research
Volume 106, Issue 2 , Pages 281-285 , December 2008

Symptom remission in first episode patients

  • Jean Addington

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Health Sciences Centre - Faculty of Medicine, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1. Tel.: +1 403 210 6379.
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  • Donald Addington

Received 1 April 2008 ,Revised 27 August 2008 ,Accepted 3 September 2008.

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PII: S0920-9964(08)00408-8

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.09.014

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 106, Issue 2 , Pages 281-285 , December 2008

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