The eye's mind: brain mapping and psychiatry
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The eye's mind: brain mapping and psychiatry.
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1250
DOI: 10.1192/bjp182.5.381