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Alternative approaches to epilepsy treatment

Caitlin McElroy-Cox1

  • 1Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Columbia University, Neurologic Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA. cam18@columbia.edu

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
|June 12, 2009
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