Reward processing and drug addiction: Does sex matter?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Fattore, Liana ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addiction; Behavioral dependence; Gender sex difference; Reward; Sexual brain dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE; OPIATE;

ANXIETY; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EATING DISORDER; FEAR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMPULSIVENESS; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELAPSE; REWARD; SENSATION SEEKING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STRESS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84946549243     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00329     Document Type: Note

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