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Cognitive Deficit in a Case of Retrograde Amnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gisli H. Gudjonsson*
Affiliation:
Forensic Section, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Pamela J. Taylor
Affiliation:
Forensic Section, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
*
Correspondence

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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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