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ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION

Abnormal body perception and neural activity in the insula in depression: An fMRI study of the depressed “material me”

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Pages 538-549 | Received 01 Sep 2009, Accepted 16 Dec 2009, Published online: 11 Feb 2010

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