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. 1991 Feb;84(2):89–91. doi: 10.1177/014107689108400212

A psychiatric presentation of abulia--three cases of left frontal lobe ischaemia and atrophy.

H Förstl 1, B Sahakian 1
PMCID: PMC1293095  PMID: 1999822

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