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Reward biochemistry linked to Clock
The Scientist 2005, 19(13):27
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In mice, the circadian Clock gene is involved in regulating the brain's dopaminergic reward pathway. Colleen McClung and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas found that animals with no functional Clock protein were more susceptible to the behavioral effects of cocaine and had elevated dopamine transmission in the reward pathway.[1]
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