The Brain-skin Connection: Role of Psychosocial Factors and Neuropeptides in Psoriasis

Overview

Journal Expert Rev Clin Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2010 May 19

PMID 20477685

Citations 9

Authors

Ben P Chapman

Jan Moynihan

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