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Mervis MD Apathy or a lack of motivation has been increasingly recognized as a distinct psychiatric syndrome Apathy is primarily a dysfunction of the frontalsubcortical circuit and is associated with various neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzh ID: 36015 Download Pdf

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Mervis MD Apathy or a lack of motivation has been increasingly recognized as a distinct psychiatric syndrome Apathy is primarily a dysfunction of the frontalsubcortical circuit and is associated with various neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzh

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