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5 - Stress, Pharmacology, and Creativity

from Part II - Pharmacology and Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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David Q. Beversdorf
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 73 - 91
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