The new biology of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Implications for evolutionary psychology

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-175

  Rapoport, Judith L ^a,c   Fiske, Alan ^b  

^a Child Psychiatry Branch

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

CHOREA MINOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 0031908284     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1998.0063     Document Type: Review

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