Speci®c brain processing of facial expressions in people with alexithymia: an H2O-PET study
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Departments of 1Pharmacology, 2Behavioral Medicine, 3Psychosomatic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 4Department of Psychology, Tohoku University, Sendai, 5ATR-International Human Information Science Laboratories Department 2, Kyoto, 6Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University and 7Department of Comprehensive Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan Correspondence to: Professor Kazuhiko Yanai, MD, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan E-mail: [email protected]
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