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Published on: May 3, 2017

Jonathan Posner1, Andrew M Michael2, Meredith Fay1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Biological Psychiatry. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
|October 23, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
Coding Interactive Behavioramygdalafunctional connectivitymother–infant interactionneonatal fMRIorbitofrontal cortex

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