Disturbances in affective touch in hereditary sensory & autonomic neuropathy type III.

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Published in Int J Psychophysiol on April 12, 2014

Authors

Vaughan G Macefield1, Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann2, Line Löken3, Felicia B Axelrod2, Horacio Kaufmann2

Author Affiliations

1: School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia; Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: v.macefield@uws.edu.au.
2: Dysautonomia Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, NY, USA.
3: Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.

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