Fear Generalization and Anxiety: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Biological Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2015-09-01

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.04.010PMID 25981173
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