Pavlovian conditioning and drug overdose: When tolerance fails

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 503-513

  Siegel, Shepard ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Learning; Overdose; Pavlovian conditioning; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005595181     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066350109141767     Document Type: Article

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