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Original Article

Decreased Incidence of Limbic Motor Seizures Following Twenty Pairings of Subclinical Lithium-Pilocarpine Injections and a Complex “Burst-Firing” Magnetic Field

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Pages 1-6 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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