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Prion disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Simon Fleminger  and
David Curtis
Simon Fleminger*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner Street, London
David Curtis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner Street, London
*
Dr Simon Fleminger, The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue 2 , February 1997 , pp. 103 - 105
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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