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Brief report| Volume 22, ISSUE 5, P653-656, May 1987

Electrodermal psychophysiology of anxiety disorder: Orienting response and spontaneous fluctuations

  • Scott P. Orr
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. Orr, Veterans Administration Medical Center, 718 Smyth Road, Manchester, NH 03104.
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    From the Manchester Veterans Administration Medical Center Manchester, NH and the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. USA
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  • Roger K. Pitman
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    From the Manchester Veterans Administration Medical Center Manchester, NH and the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. USA
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