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Research Article

Regulating emotion following severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial of heart-rate variability biofeedback training

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Pages 1390-1401 | Received 14 Jul 2020, Accepted 21 Aug 2021, Published online: 06 Sep 2021

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