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Injury and Insult—Considerations of the Neuropathological Aetiology of Mental Subnormality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Valerie Cowie
Valerie Cowie*
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Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4NR
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We have gone far in getting to grips with the nature of the error underlying mental handicap in many conditions. In a number of these, this has given scope, for example, for treatment based on biochemical correction, and for valuable preventive measures. The cause of the condition of many mentally handicapped patients, however, remains mysterious when neither history-taking nor investigations have led to any clues.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 137 , Issue 4 , October 1980 , pp. 305 - 312
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 

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