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Foetal Learning: Implications for Psychiatry?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter G. Hepper
Peter G. Hepper*
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School of Psychology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN
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“The history of man for the nine months preceeding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than for all the three score and ten years that follow it.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1885)

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 289 - 293
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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