LINK TO ARTICLE By Maria Konnikova Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in his career, he, like most others studying addiction at the time, focussed on substance-abuse problems—cocaine and heroin […]
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Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2013;35 Suppl 2:S140-6. doi: 10.1590/1516-4446-2013-1149. Planeta CS. Abstract Drug addiction has serious health and social consequences. In the last 50 years, a wide range of techniques have been developed to model specific aspects of drug-taking behaviors and have greatly contributed to the understanding of the neurobiological basis of drug abuse and addiction. […]
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Pharmacopsychiatry. Author manuscript; available in PMC Sep 8, 2009. Published in final edited form as: Pharmacopsychiatry. May 2009; 42(Suppl 1): S32–S41. Published online May 11, 2009. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1216356 PMCID: PMC2739305 NIHMSID: NIHMS140629 George F. Koob, Ph.D. Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at […]
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Neuropharmacology. Author manuscript; available in PMC Jan 1, 2010. Neuropharmacology. 2009; 56(Suppl 1): 18–31. Published online Aug 7, 2008. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2008.07.043 PMCID: PMC2637927 NIHMSID: NIHMS86836 George F. Koob, Ph.D. Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Neuropharmacology See other articles in PMC that […]
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