Aggression and anxiety: social context and neurobiological links.

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Published in Front Behav Neurosci on March 30, 2010

Authors

Inga D Neumann1, Alexa H Veenema, Daniela I Beiderbeck

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Behavioural and Molecular Neuroendocrinology, University of Regensburg Regensburg, Germany.

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