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Chapter 6 - Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability

from Section 2 - Co-morbidity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2019

By
Mike Kerr  and
Lance Watkins
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Mark Scheepers  and
Mike Kerr
Mark Scheepers
Affiliation:
2gether NHS Trust
Mike Kerr
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Seminars in the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability , pp. 65 - 82
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