Behavioral Inhibition: Temperament or Prodrome?

Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 182-190

  Pérez Edgar, Koraly E ^a   Guyer, Amanda E ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological mechanisms; Developmental psychopathology; Social anxiety; Socioemotioanl development; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945429188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40473-014-0019-9     Document Type: Review

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