The patient as a moving target: The importance to rehabilitation of understanding variability

Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 39-61

  Stuss, Donald T ^a   Binns, Malcolm A ^a  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neurology and clinical neuroscience; Neuropsychology

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EID: 84954239654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316529898.005     Document Type: Chapter

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