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Discrete and Recurrent Traumatization in PTSD: Fear vs. Anxious Misery

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This work was supported in part by a National Institute of Mental Health grant (P50 MH 72850) to the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention (CSEA), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (P.J. Lang Director & Principal Investigator) and NRSA Research Fellowship (F31 MH069048) to the second author.

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Lang, P.J., McTeague, L.M. Discrete and Recurrent Traumatization in PTSD: Fear vs. Anxious Misery. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 18, 207–209 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-011-9252-5

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