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Cognitive Neurorehabilitation in Epilepsy Patients via Virtual Reality Environments: Systematic Review

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  1. 1st Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuropsychology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Theodoros Fasilis, Panayiotis Patrikelis, Stefanos Korfias, Athanasia Alexoudi, Anastasia Verentzioti & Stylianos Gatzonis

  2. Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Panayiotis Patrikelis & Lambros Messinis

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  4. Department of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Grigorios Nasios

  5. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

    Efthimios Dardiotis

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Fasilis, T. et al. (2023). Cognitive Neurorehabilitation in Epilepsy Patients via Virtual Reality Environments: Systematic Review. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2022. GeNeDis 2022. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1424. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31982-2_14

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