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Dictionary of
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Williams, Denis (1 March 1956). "The structure of emotions reflected in epileptic experiences".
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Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
911:"Featured Neurologist: Denis John Williams (1908–1990)"
338:"Poliomyelitis Limited to both Trigeminal Motor Nuclei"
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209:"The Significance of an Abnormal Electroencephalogram"
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Williams returned and brought the first
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Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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252:"The Electro-Encephalogram in Acute Head Injuries"
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171:in 1974. In 1971 he was a founder trustee of the
772:"Modern Views on the Classification of Epilepsy"
373:"Cerebral Embolism Following Contusion of Heart"
295:"The Electroencephalogram in Traumatic Epilepsy"
16:Welsh neurologist and epileptologist (1908–1990)
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1001:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
175:. For a number of years he was the editor of
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342:Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
459:"Boeck's Sarcoidosis of the Nervous System"
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138:Military Hospital for Head Injuries
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100:Denis Williams graduated from the
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770:Williams, Denis (22 March 1958).
615:"The Psychiatry of the Epileptic"
134:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
868:Symonds CP, Williams DJ (1943).
880:Her Majesty's Stationery Office
416:"New Orientations in Epilepsy"
196:List of Welsh medical pioneers
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893:"Basil Gerald Parsons-Smith"
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650:"Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"
102:University of Manchester
666:10.1136/bmj.1.5501.1439
654:British Medical Journal
576:British Medical Journal
498:British Medical Journal
494:"Phenomena of Epilepsy"
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