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A new neurobehavioral phenotype of familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: impaired theory of mind

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  1. Department of Diagnostics and Applied Technology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli, Giulia Tallarita, Annalisa Parente & Giuseppe Di Fede

  2. Nuclear Medicine Unit, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo and Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Angelo Del Sole

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Giovagnoli, A.R., Tallarita, G., Parente, A. et al. A new neurobehavioral phenotype of familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: impaired theory of mind. Neurol Sci 40, 1073–1075 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3646-1

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