Personality profile of men using anabolic androgenic steroids

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 170-175

  Galligani, Niklas ^a   Renck, Annika ^a   Hansen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030175696     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0021     Document Type: Article

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