First-Episode Psychosis: A Clinical Approach
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First-episode psychosis: a clinical approach.
BACKGROUND Psychotic illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness, are relatively common and clearly devastating diseases. Most scientific literature focuses on research and care of patients suffering from psychotic illnesses in the middle age-group; subsequently, the first episode or early stages of psychotic illnesses have been relatively ignored, especially the issues of early diagno...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/15572625-13-6-430