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Study implicates dopamine in food restriction, drug abuse

August 21, 2013 by

Why are food-restricted animals more vulnerable to the effects of drugs of abuse? Researchers found a clue: dopamine neurons in a specific brain region fire bursts more than twice as frequently in chronically food-restricted mice.

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