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Cognitive Deficit in a Case of Retrograde Amnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gisli H. Gudjonsson  and
Pamela J. Taylor
Gisli H. Gudjonsson*
Affiliation:
Forensic Section, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Pamela J. Taylor
Affiliation:
Forensic Section, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
*
∗Correspondence
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 6 , December 1985 , pp. 715 - 718
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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