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Neuromythology
The Babinski sign
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Funding National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Program Grant #1037746.
Competing interests The author is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by David Nicholl, Birmingham, UK.
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