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Nature Medicine 13, 413 - 414 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0407-413
Premature poking: impulsivity, cocaine and dopamine
George Uhl1
- The author is in the Molecular Neurobiology Branch, US National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Box 5180, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. e-mail: GUHL@intra.nida.nih.gov
Abstract
'Impulsivity' occurs frequently in people with addiction and other common disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Experiments in rats suggest that reduced dopamine receptor availability in the brain's ventral striatum may underlie links between impulsivity and addiction.
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