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Irani, F., Ruocco, A.C., Shima, L.C. (2018). Delusion. 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_1286
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