Maternal Stress Adaptations Peripartum: Mom's Innate Anxiety Determines Maternal Care and Aggression

Neurobiology of the Parental Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-130

  Neumann, Inga D ^a   Bosch, Oliver J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374285-8.00008-1     Document Type: Chapter

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