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Children with moderate/severe brain damage/dysfunction outperform adults with mild-to-no brain damage on the Medical Symptom Validity Test

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Pages 960-971 | Received 18 Jun 2008, Accepted 19 Sep 2008, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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