Executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: Is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test enough?

@article{Rzezak2009ExecutiveDI,
  title={Executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: Is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test enough?},
  author={Patricia Rzezak and Daniel Fuentes and Catarina Abra{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es and Sigride Thome-Souza and Evelyn Kuczynski and Marilisa M. Guerreiro and Kette D. Valente},
  journal={Epilepsy \& Behavior},
  year={2009},
  volume={15},
  pages={376-381},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:19431911}
}
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