The role of serotonin transporter in modeling psychiatric disorders: Focus on depression, emotion regulation, and the social brain

Experimental Models in Serotonin Transporter Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 308-352

  Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511729935.012     Document Type: Chapter

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