Verbal perseveration as the initial symptom in a case of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob diseaseFootnote

The authors would like to thank Karin Geisler, Maura Bayer, and Caroline Brew for their critical reading of this paper, and the colleagues who provided the two reviews of this manuscript for their constructive comments and suggestions.

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