Amphetamine Primes Motivation to Gamble and Gambling-Related Semantic Networks in Problem Gamblers
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0893-133X,1740-634X
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300333