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  1. Center for Personality Disorders, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
  2. Paola Bozzatello and Rosalba Morese equally contributed to the trial and can both be considered first authors.
  3. Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
  4. Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
  5. Paola Bozzatello and Rosalba Morese equally contributed to the trial and can both be considered first authors.
  6. Department of Neuroradiology, Hospital Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin Italy
  7. Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
  8. Neuroscience Institute of Turin, Italy
  9. Center for Personality Disorders, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
  10. Neuroscience Institute of Turin, Italy
  11. Corresponding author: Silvio Bellino, Center for Personality Disorders, Psychiatric Clinic, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy ([email protected])
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