Genetic models of aggression, impulsivity, and related behaviors

Aggression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 19-40

  Bergeman, C S ^a   Montpetit, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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