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Nature Medicine 14, 908 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0908-908

Science of addiction: lost in a labyrinth

Antonello Bonci1

  1. Antonello Bonci is at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, 5858 Horton Street, Suite 200, Emeryville, California 94608, USA e-mail: antonello.bonci@ucsf.edu

What is addiction? Despite my many years studying the mesolimbic system, one of the key players in many drug-dependent behaviors, I still struggle to define addiction.