Handedness and potential implications for neurorehabilitation in multiple sclerosis.

Mult Scler Relat Disord

Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Clinical Center for Multiple Sclerosis, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.

Published: January 2020

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