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Original Articles

Recovery of Long-Term Anterograde Amnesia, but Not Retrograde Amnesia, after Initiation of an Anti-Epileptic Drug in a Case of Transient Epileptic Amnesia

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Pages 385-389 | Received 14 Jul 2007, Accepted 19 Nov 2007, Published online: 25 Aug 2010

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