Treating epilepsy in forcibly displaced persons: timely, necessary, affordable

Farrah J Mateen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. fmateen@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. fmateen@mgh.harvard.edu.

Review

Farrah J Mateen. Nat Rev Neurol. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;17(10):593-594.

doi: 10.1038/s41582-021-00548-y.

Farrah J Mateen^{1

2}

¹ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. fmateen@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. fmateen@mgh.harvard.edu.

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