Alcohol
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 131-139 , April 2001

Effects of ethanol on the dorsal raphe nucleus and its projections to the caudate putamen

Received 2 October 2000 ,Revised 3 January 2001 ,Accepted 15 January 2001.

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☆ A paper published as a high-priority communication is one that reviewers have identified as being of high scientific significance and have recommended that the study findings should be communicated to the scientific community as soon as possible.Editor: T.R. Jerrells

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