Perseveration and conversation in TBI: Response to pharmacological interventionFootnote

The first author would like to acknowledge the donors of the Medical Faculty Research Endowment Fund, University Council Scholarship, and the University of the Witwatersrand Postgraduate Merit Award, as well as Novartis South Africa for their generous grants that helped finance this project.This paper was presented at the 10th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, South Africa, June 2002, as well as the British Aphasiology Conference, UK, September 2003.

Footnote

The first author would like to acknowledge the donors of the Medical Faculty Research Endowment Fund, University Council Scholarship, and the University of the Witwatersrand Postgraduate Merit Award, as well as Novartis South Africa for their generous grants that helped finance this project.This paper was presented at the 10th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, South Africa, June 2002, as well as the British Aphasiology Conference, UK, September 2003.

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