Gambling rats: Insight into impulsive and addictive behavior

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 359-

  Winstanley, Catharine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ADDICTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALADJUSTMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; REWARD; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 78649660295     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.136     Document Type: Short Survey

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