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Advances in the translational neuroscience of neurosteroids

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, University Towers Suite 2H 100 York St, New Haven, CT, 06516, USA

    C. Neill Epperson

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, MC3077, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Harriet deWit

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Psychiatry Service (116A), VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA

    John H. Krystal

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Epperson, C.N., deWit, H. & Krystal, J.H. Advances in the translational neuroscience of neurosteroids. Psychopharmacology 186, 265–266 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-006-0310-x

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