Effects of MDMA on sociability and neural response to social threat and social reward

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Psychopharmacology

• Publication date

  2009-08-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00213-009-1635-zPMID 19680634PMCID PMC3328967
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