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Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor

J M Coates1, J Herbert

  • 1Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom. jmc98@cam.ac.uk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|April 17, 2008
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