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So far, restricting our attention to the area of speech, we have contrasted brain disease and mental illness. Speech pathology is one of the best understood topics amongst brain diseases. Likewise, spoken expressions encompass so many of the symptoms of mental illnesses that by themselves they entitle us to view mental patients from this sole perspective. Nevertheless, I hope that in the following more extensive discussion, your understanding will be aided by starting from the simplified conditions of our example.
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Miller, R., Dennison, J. (2015). Lecture 2. In: Miller, ONZM, B.A., B.Sc., PhD., R., Dennison, J.P., M.Sc., B.A., J. (eds) An Outline of Psychiatry in Clinical Lectures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18051-9_2
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