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01-09-2014 | Letter to the Editor

The relationship between empathy, emotion processing and clinical insight in remitted schizophrenia patients

Authors: Haralahalli D. Bhagyavathi, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Jagadisha Thirthalli

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 6/2014

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Title: The relationship between empathy, emotion processing and clinical insight in remitted schizophrenia patients
Authors: Haralahalli D. Bhagyavathi
Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta
Jagadisha Thirthalli
Publication date: 01-09-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-013-0484-2

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