Chapter 1.2 Early-life environmental manipulations in rodents and primates: Potential animal models in depression research

Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue PART 2, 2005, Pages 23-50

  Pryce, Christopher R ^a   Rüedi Bettschen, Daniela ^a   Dettling, Andrea C ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0921-0709(05)80048-3     Document Type: Chapter

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