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Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes

Boris Schiffer ,

* E-mail: boris.schiffer@uni-due.de

Affiliations Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL-University Hospital Bochum, Germany, Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Christina Pawliczek,

Affiliations Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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Bernhard W. Müller,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Elke R. Gizewski,

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Germany, Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Innsbruck, Austria
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Henrik Walter

Affiliation Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes

Boris Schiffer,
Christina Pawliczek,
Bernhard W. Müller,
Elke R. Gizewski,
Henrik Walter

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Published: April 10, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060278

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