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  1. Department of Psychiatry, British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Grant L. Iverson

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    John DeLuca

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Iverson, G.L. (2018). Test of Memory Malingering. 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_216

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