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This work was funded and sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (RG45422) and conducted within the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Unit Cambridge (UK) and the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge, which is jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. KDE and PSJ, who are both supported by an MRC research grant, declare no conflict of interest. GBW declares that he has no potential conflict of interest. TWR consults for Cambridge Cognition, Lilly, Lundbeck and GlaxoSmithKline, and is currently in receipt of research grants from these companies. ETB is employed part-time by GlaxoSmithKline and part-time by the University of Cambridge.

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Ersche, K., Jones, P., Williams, G. et al. Cocaine dependence: a fast-track for brain ageing?. Mol Psychiatry 18, 134–135 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.31

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