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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 380, Issue 3, 3 June 2005, Pages 346-347
Neuroscience Letters

Letter to the Editor
A response to Granqvist et al. “Sensed presence and mystical experiences are predicted by suggestibility, not by the application of transcranial weak magnetic fields”

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