Subjective and physiological response to emotions in temporal lobe epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Affective Disorders
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0165-0327
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.10.004