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Brain Damage and ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian Kendell
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG
R. T. C. Pratt
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG
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Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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