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Zinaida I Storozheva1

  • 1Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry, Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Federal Research Center for Innovator and Emerging Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Moscow 125315, Russia. storozheva_zi@mail.ru.

World Journal of Psychiatry
|August 21, 2025
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AttentionBrain potentialsGenesNeuropsychiatric disordersPrepulse modificationStartle reaction

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