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Stimulant side effects: prefrontal/basal ganglia circuit control at dopamine D1/D2 receptors.
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists - 1 Apr 2014
Levy Florence, Dadds Mark R
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BACKGROUND: While side effects of stimulant medication used to treat children for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been clinically described as mild but variable, there is little or no research or understanding of biological mechanisms involved. METHOD: The present short review extends the 'tonic-phasic' dopamine hypothesis in terms of prefrontal and subcortical dopamine receptor (D1/D2) imbalance....
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