Oxytocin in learning and addiction: From early discoveries to the present

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-9

  Sarnyai, Zoltán ^a   Kovács, Gábor L ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Addiction; Learning memory; Oxytocin; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADDICTION; LEARNING & MEMORY; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; OXYTOCIN; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84895555698     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2013.11.019     Document Type: Review

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