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Towards an understanding of mental disorders in urban areas

2007-01-01

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The prevailing aetiological paradigm for schizophrenia and other psychotic syndromes suggests these disorders are a characteristic of the human condition and ubiquitous with respect to the environment. This is based on an erroneous belief that the incidence of schizophrenia does not vary geographically. Since the seminal work of Faris and Dunham (1939), the increased risk of schizophrenia associated with urbanicit...

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341fd0a1-995f-5f8c-96be-abb2686c1c9d
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10.17863/cam.11662
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