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  1. Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Eric M. Fine

  2. School of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Dean C. Delis

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    John DeLuca

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Fine, E.M., Delis, D.C. (2018). Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning System. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1539

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