Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and the Regulation of Effort in Food-Seeking Behavior: Implications for Studies of Natural Motivation, Psychiatry, and Drug Abuse

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  2003

• Venue

  Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

• Publication date

  2003-04-01

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1124/JPET.102.035063PMID 12649346
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