Vision in schizophrenia: why it matters
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Steven Silverstein*, Brian P. Keane, Randolph Blake, Anne Giersch, Michael Green and Szabolcs Kéri 1 Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA 2 Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 4 Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 5 Department of Physiology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary *Correspondence: [email protected]
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