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Commentary: Further Considerations in Using Functional Neuroimaging in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2019

JAMES L. BERNAT
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Special Issue 4: Clinical Neuroethics , October 2019 , pp. 632 - 634
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9. See note 5, Bernat 2016.

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