Chronic Physical Illness and Emotional Disorder in Childhood
The British Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 January 1994Open access
M. Elena Garralda
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Breslau (1990) has summarised the evidence from epidemiological surveys, and has shown that any increase in psy chiatric risk for children with chronic physical illness is, to a large extent, accounted for by disorders involving the brain (e.g. epilepsy).
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