Prefrontal social cognition network dysfunction underlying face encoding and social anxiety in fragile X syndrome
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عنوان ژورنال: NeuroImage
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1053-8119
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.009