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Errichiello, L., Striano, P., Galletta, D. et al. Psychiatric features in gelastic epilepsy and hypothalamic hamartoma: long-term psychodiagnostic observations. Neurol Sci 35, 469–471 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-013-1559-6
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