Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 1037-1042 , September 2010

Epileptic feeling of multiple presences in the frontal space

  • Fabienne Picard

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Geneva, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.

Received 28 November 2009 ,Revised 4 February 2010 ,Accepted 8 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.02.002

Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 1037-1042 , September 2010

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