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A Better Blood Test to Differentiate Epileptic From Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures?
1From the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences (G.B.Y.), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and Paediatric Neurology (L.L.T.), Washington University, St. Louis, MO. bryan.young@lhsc.on.ca.
Neurology
|January 26, 2021
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