Reward system and addiction: what dopamine does and doesn’t do

Gaetano DiChiara(University of Cagliari), Valentina Bassareo(University of Cagliari)

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

December 16, 2006

10.1016/j.coph.2006.11.003

Cited by 523

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