Psychotic symptoms in the general population – an evolutionary perspective
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Psychotic symptoms in the general population - an evolutionary perspective.
Our ideas about the intrinsically pathological nature of hallucinations and delusions are being challenged by findings from epidemiology, neuroimaging and clinical research. Population-based studies using both self-report and interview surveys show that the prevalence of psychotic symptoms is far greater than had been previously considered, prompting us to re-evaluate these psychotic symptoms a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.076018