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Revealing the paradox of drug reward in human evolution

Neurobiological models of drug abuse propose that drug use is initiated and maintained by rewarding feedback mechanisms. However, the most commonly used drugs are plant neurotoxins that evolved to punish, not reward, consumption by animal herbivores. Reward models therefore implicitly assume an evol...

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Autores principales: Sullivan, Roger J, Hagen, Edward H, Hammerstein, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18353749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1673