Prenatal sex hormone effects on child and adult sex-typed behavior: methods and findings

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews - Tập 29 - Trang 353-384 - 2005
Celina C.C. Cohen-Bendahan1, Cornelieke van de Beek1,2, Sheri A. Berenbaum3
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
2Department of Special Education, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

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