Optogenetic modulation of neural circuits that underlie reward seeking.

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Published in Biol Psychiatry on December 22, 2011

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Garret D Stuber1, Jonathan P Britt, Antonello Bonci

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1: Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. gstuber@med.unc.edu

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