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The facial expression of pain in patients with dementia

  • Miriam Kunz

      Affiliations

    • Physiological Psychology, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address. Physiological Psychology, University of Bamberg, Markuspl. 3, 96045 Bamberg, Germany. Tel.: +49 951 8631850; fax: +49 951 8631976.
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  • Siegfried Scharmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Uli Hemmeter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Karsten Schepelmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Stefan Lautenbacher

      Affiliations

    • Physiological Psychology, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany

Received 26 April 2007 ,Revised 21 August 2007 ,Accepted 10 September 2007.

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PII: S0304-3959(07)00516-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.09.007

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