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Binge drinking and brain stress systems

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The discovery that interactions between two stress-associated neuropeptide hormones regulate binge drinking in mice provides insight into the biological mechanisms that underpin the bingeing cycle.

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Figure 1: Control of bingeing patterns.

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  1. Richard M. O'Connor and Paul J. Kenny are in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029–6574, USA.,

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