Schizophrenia: fixed incidence or fixed thinking?
Psychological MedicinePublished 1 May 1989Open access
E. Fuller Torrey
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The incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia have been assumed to be fixed in time but fixed in space geographically uniform since the closing years of the nineteenth century, but these assumptions are at risk of being washed away by emerging studies.
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