Neural Systems Involved in Fear and Anxiety Based on the Fear-Potentiated Startle Test

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 381-425

  Davis, Michael ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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