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Hyperfamiliarity for unknown faces after non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: a case report

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  1. Department of Basic Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Israel Contador & María Victoria Perea Bartolomé

  2. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús González de la Aleja, Rosa Ana Saiz-Díaz & Juan Francisco Gonzalo

  3. EEG-Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospital “12 de Octubre”, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús González de la Aleja & Rosa Ana Saiz-Díaz

  4. Department of Neurology, University Hospital “12 de Octubre”, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Francisco Gonzalo

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Contador, I., de la Aleja, J.G., Saiz-Díaz, R.A. et al. Hyperfamiliarity for unknown faces after non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: a case report. Neurol Sci 37, 1879–1881 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-016-2639-1

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