Neuroimaging Studies of Human Anxiety Disorders
Cutting Paths of Knowledge through the Field of Neurotic Phenomena


Lewis R. Baxter, Jr.
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
The Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine
Laboratory of Structural Biology and Molecular Medicine
The Crump Institute for Biological Imaging
The Brain Research Institute
University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine,
Los Angeles, California 90024.


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