Reward system and addiction: what dopamine does and doesn't do (DOI:10.1016/j.coph.2006.11.003);Reward system and addiction: what dopamine does and doesn't do

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Di Chiara, Gaetano ^a   Bassareo, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANHEDONIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPULSION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOOD INTAKE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PALATABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; REWARD; SATIETY; SENSITIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33846903376     PISSN: 14714892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2007.02.001     Document Type: Erratum

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