Chapter 3.1 Animal models of posttraumatic stress disorder

Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue PART 2, 2005, Pages 231-250

  Liberzon, Israel ^a   Khan, Samir ^a   Young, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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