Sex differences in a rat model of risky decision making.
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Sex differences in a rat model of risky decision making.
Many debilitating psychiatric conditions, including drug addiction, are characterized by poor decision making and maladaptive risk-taking. Recent research has begun to probe this relationship to determine how brain mechanisms mediating risk-taking become compromised after chronic drug use. Currently, however, the majority of work in this field has used male subjects. Given the well-established ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1939-0084,0735-7044
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000111