Motivational activation: a unifying hypothesis of orexin/hypocretin function

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nature Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2014-09-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/nn.3810PMID 25254979PMCID PMC4335648
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