Principles of Experimental Psychopathology: Essays in Honor by Mark F. Lenzenweger, Jill M. Hooley, Kurt D. Salzinger

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By Mark F. Lenzenweger, Jill M. Hooley, Kurt D. Salzinger

Nation Univ. of recent York, long island. offers examples of the tools of experimental psychology and allied disciplines utilized to the learn of schizophrenia and different stipulations via an realizing of normative methods, genetics, and neuroscience. Written for mental technological know-how scholars and students.

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