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The authors are supported by grants PSI2013-41872-P and 2014SGR-1587. The authors sincerely thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their particularly constructive criticisms and comments.
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Fernández-Teruel, A., Tobeña, A. Do not bury thirty years of avoidance findings. Mol Psychiatry 23, 497–498 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2017.209
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