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The problem of mild dementia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

A. S. Henderson and
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert
Affiliation:
Address for Dr A. S. Henderson: NH and MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, The Australian National University, Canberra 2600, Australia.
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1984, pp. 5 - 11
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