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Hashimoto’s encephalopathy mimicking spinocerebellar ataxia

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the grants from the National Science Foundation of China (No. 30900478, 30973207), The New-Star of Science and Technology supported by Beijing Metropolis (No. 2010B053) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 7102072).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, 45 Changchun Street, 100053, Beijing, Poeple’s Republic of China

    Yi Tang, Changbiao Chu, Gangzhi Wei, Xinqing Zhang, Yuwei Da & Jianping Jia

  2. Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

    Michael T. Lin

  3. Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Poeple’s Republic of China

    Hui Huang

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Y. Tang and C. Chu contributed equally to this work.

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Tang, Y., Chu, C., Lin, M.T. et al. Hashimoto’s encephalopathy mimicking spinocerebellar ataxia. J Neurol 258, 1705–1707 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-011-5976-2

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