Human brain imaging studies of emotional memory: Uncovering influences of sex and hemisphere

Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 311-324

  Cahill, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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