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Addiction-related genes in gambling disorders: new insights from parallel human and pre-clinical models.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Aug 2015
Lobo D S S, Aleksandrova L, Knight J, Casey D M, el-Guebaly N, Nobrega J N, Kennedy J L
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Neurobiological research supports the characterization of disordered gambling (DG) as a behavioral addiction. Recently, an animal model of gambling behavior was developed (rat gambling task, rGT), expanding the available tools to investigate DG neurobiology. We investigated whether rGT performance and associated risk gene expression in the rat's brain could provide cross-translational understanding of the...
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