Action versus animal naming fluency in subcortical dementia, frontal dementias, and Alzheimer's disease
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Frontal-Subcortical Dementias
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurocase
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1355-4794,1465-3656
DOI: 10.1080/13554790903456183