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Visual broadcast in schizophrenia
  1. M D Hunter,
  2. S Mysorekar,
  3. P W R Woodruff
  1. The University of Sheffield, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Academic Clinical Psychiatry, The Longley Centre, NGH, Norwood Grange Drive, Sheffield S5 7JT
  1. Correspondence to:
 Michael Hunter
 The University of Sheffield, School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Academic Clinical Psychiatry, The Longley Centre, NGH, Norwood Grange Drive, Sheffield S5 7JT; m.d.huntershef.ac.uk

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