Pain and apathy
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چکیده
In this case report we discuss the lack of emotional reactivity and evasive motor motivation to nociceptive stimuli presented by a patient with frontotemporal degenerative disease and apathy as a predominant behavioral symptom.
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دوره 2 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2008