Role of dopamine, the frontal cortex and memory circuits in drug addiction: insight from imaging studies.

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Published in Neurobiol Learn Mem on November 01, 2002

Authors

Nora D Volkow1, Joanna S Fowler, Gene-Jack Wang, Rita Z Goldstein

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA. volkow@bnl.gov

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