Right Brain: The Purple Scarf and the Cortical Ribbon

Katherine Fu1, Lealani Mae Acosta2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (K.F.), University of California, Los Angeles; and Department of Neurology (L.M.A.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. kfu@mednet.ucla.edu.

Neurology
|December 16, 2022
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