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Financial support of this study was provided by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health, Grant no. MH002798. The authors thank Dr Pine for his clinical coverage of this study.
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Grillon, C., Krimsky, M., Charney, D. et al. Oxytocin increases anxiety to unpredictable threat. Mol Psychiatry 18, 958–960 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.156
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