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Weyburn Assessment Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. B. Blewett  and
W. B. Stefaniuk
D. B. Blewett
Affiliation:
Services Branch, Department of Public Health, Saskatchewan, Canada
W. B. Stefaniuk
Affiliation:
Saskatchewan Committee for Schizophrenia Research
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Some time ago the Department of National Health and Welfare of the Government of Canada became interested in the therapeutic effects of a preparation of nucleotides in the treatment of mental illness. It was decided that the research group from the Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn, should assess the usefulness of the preparation in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 359 - 371
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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