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Dirk E M Geurts1, Quentin J M Huys, Hanneke E M den Ouden

  • 1Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Department of Psychiatry, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, WC1N 3AR, London, United Kingdom, Translational Neuromodeling Unit, ETH, University of Zurich, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland, and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
|November 29, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Pavlovianaversiveinhibitioninstrumentalserotonintryptophan depletion

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