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  1. Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Kristin Galetta

  2. Department of Neurology, New York University of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Steven Galetta

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    John DeLuca

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Galetta, K., Galetta, S. (2018). King-Devick Test. 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_9127

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