Sex hormones: A new treatment for cocaine abuse

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2155-2156

  De Wit, Harriet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 80052709946     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.146     Document Type: Note

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