Oxytocin Increases Anxiety to Unpredictable Threat

Overview

Journal Mol Psychiatry

Specialties Molecular Biology
Psychiatry

Date 2012 Nov 14

PMID 23147382

Citations 74

Authors

C Grillon

M Krimsky

D R Charney

K Vytal

M Ernst

B Cornwell

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