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Published in final edited form as: JAMA Psychiatry. 2020 May 1;77(5):454. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0365

Notice of Retractions: “Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Reduced In Vivo Norepinephrine Transporter Availability in the Locus Coeruleus” and “Association of In Vivo κ-Opioid Receptor Availability and the Transdiagnostic Dimensional Expression of Trauma-Related Psychopathology” by Alexander Neumeister

Howard Bauchner 1, Dost Öngür 1
PMCID: PMC7874974  NIHMSID: NIHMS1668893  PMID: 32074384

An investigation conducted by the US Office of Research Integrity found that Alexander Neumeister, MD, “engaged in research misconduct by intentionally, knowingly, and/or recklessly falsifying and/or fabricating data in the clinical records of research…resulting in the inclusion of falsified and/or fabricated research methods and results”1,2 in 2 articles published in JAMA Psychiatry in 20133 and 2014.4 Therefore, these articles are retracted.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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