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The prospects for clinical psychoneuroendocrinology: has the curtain been drawn across the neuroendocrine window?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Robert T. Rubin
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , August 1985 , pp. 451 - 454
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