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Reward sensitivity: issues of measurement, and achieving consilience between human and animal phenotypes.
Addiction biology - 1 Apr 2010
Stephens David N, Duka Theodora, Crombag Hans S, Cunningham Christopher L, Heilig Markus, Crabbe John C
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Reward is a concept fundamental to discussions of drug abuse and addiction. The idea that altered sensitivity to either drug-reward, or to rewards in general, contributes to, or results from, drug-taking is a common theme in several theories of addiction. However, the concept of reward is problematic in that it is used to refer to apparently different behavioural phenomena, and even to diverse neurobiological...
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