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How can drug addiction help us understand obesity?

Nature Neuroscience, ISSN: 1097-6256, Vol: 8, Issue: 5, Page: 555-560
2005
  • 873
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 951
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 44
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    873
  • Captures
    951
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • 1
  • Social Media
    44
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      44
      • Facebook
        44

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To the degree that drugs and food activate common reward circuitry in the brain, drugs offer powerful tools for understanding the neural circuitry that mediates food-motivated habits and how this circuitry may be hijacked to cause appetitive behaviors to go awry.

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