Obstetric complications and risk of schizophrenia
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Obstetric complications in schizophrenia
(BDQ). They were also interviewed using a semi-structured schedule focussed on the phenomenon of bodily change. Each subject was also asked to attempt an estimation of the size of body parts on a linear presentation. All groups over-estimated their body size, with females significantly more so than males. Apart from a non-significant trend for female schizophrenics to over-estimate to a greater...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.179.5.409