Giuseppe Moruzzi (1910–1986)

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Giovanni Berlucchi and Giacomo Rizzolatti for the kind and precise remarks on this text and for providing the picture. Last but not least, many thanks to Jan van Gijn for his thoughtful and outstanding comments on every ‘Pioneer of Neurology’ manuscript.

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    Stefano Sandrone

  2. Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

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Sandrone, S. Giuseppe Moruzzi (1910–1986). J Neurol 261, 1447–1448 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-013-7036-6

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