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Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia
- Correspondence to Dr David M Lyreskog, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK; david.lyreskog{at}psych.ox.ac.uk
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Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia
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- Received March 8, 2021
- Accepted August 18, 2021
- First published September 11, 2021.
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September 22, 2023
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