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Traumatic stress is linked to a deficit in associative episodic memory

Jonathan Guez1, Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, Yan Yankovsky

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Soroka University Medical Center. jonjon@bgu.ac.il

Journal of Traumatic Stress
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