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Teaching Clinical Reasoning with an Example Mnemonic for the Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of Traumatic Brain Injury

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During this project, Dr. Peters received the following NRSA training grant—T32AG027668.

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    Matthew E. Peters, Khaled Moussawi & Vani Rao

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Peters, M.E., Moussawi, K. & Rao, V. Teaching Clinical Reasoning with an Example Mnemonic for the Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of Traumatic Brain Injury. Acad Psychiatry 42, 686–689 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0831-0

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