Oxytocin facilitates the extinction of conditioned fear in humans.

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  2015

• Venue

  Biological Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2015-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.10.015PMID 25542304
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