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ECT in the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. M. Benbow
S. M. Benbow*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry for the Elderly York House Hathersage Road Manchester
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 6 , June 1987 , pp. 877
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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