Alcohol craving and relapse prediction: Imaging studies

Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-161

  Heinz, Andreas ^a   Beck, Anne ^a   Mir, Jan ^a   Grüsser, Sabine M ^a   Grace, Anthony A ^b   Wrase, Jana ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420007350     Document Type: Chapter

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