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Premature poking: impulsivity, cocaine and dopamine

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'Impulsivity' occurs frequently in people with addiction and other common disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Experiments in rats suggest that reduced dopamine receptor availability in the brain's ventral striatum may underlie links between impulsivity and addiction.

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Figure 1: Impulsivity model.

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  1. The author is in the Molecular Neurobiology Branch, US National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Box 5180, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. GUHL@intra.nida.nih.gov,

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Uhl, G. Premature poking: impulsivity, cocaine and dopamine. Nat Med 13, 413–414 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0407-413

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