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Urbanicity and schizophrenia. From statistical association to causality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Francesco Amaddeo  and
Michele Tansella
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 239 - 241
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