Predisposition to addiction: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and brain circuitry

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-3

  Kalivas, Peter W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONDUCT DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; ETHANOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0037228377     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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