Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on October 12, 2008

Authors

Nora D Volkow1, Gene-Jack Wang, Joanna S Fowler, Frank Telang

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. nvolkow@nida.nih.gov

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