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Sensory deficits and mental disorders of old age: causal or coincidental associations?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

S. L. Corbin  and
M. R. Eastwood
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 251 - 256
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