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Can you please find my upper limb? Somatoparaphrenia without personal neglect: a new case report

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  1. Functional Recovery and Rehabilitation Unit, National Health Service, Grosseto, Italy

    Mauro Mancuso

  2. Clinica di Riabilitazione Toscana (CRT), Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy

    Mauro Mancuso, Benedetta Basagni & Alessio Damora

  3. Department of Psychology & NeuroMI e Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Nadia Bolognini & Giuseppe Vallar

  4. Laboratory of Neuropsychology – Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

    Nadia Bolognini

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Mancuso, M., Basagni, B., Bolognini, N. et al. Can you please find my upper limb? Somatoparaphrenia without personal neglect: a new case report. Neurol Sci 44, 4135–4137 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-023-06963-x

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