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What do the neurosciences tell us about anxiety disorders? A comment1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Isaac Marks  and
Adolf Tobeña
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1986 , pp. 9 - 12
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