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Chronic exposure to a gambling-like schedule of reward predictive stimuli can promote sensitization to amphetamine in rats

Addiction is considered to be a brain disease caused by chronic exposure to drugs. Sensitization of brain dopamine (DA) systems partly mediates this effect. Pathological gambling (PG) is considered to be a behavioral addiction. Therefore, PG may be caused by chronic exposure to gambling. Identifying...

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Autores principales: Zack, Martin, Featherstone, Robert E., Mathewson, Sarah, Fletcher, Paul J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00036