Alcohol
Volume 43, Issue 7 , Pages 547-554 , November 2009

Contribution of early environmental stress to alcoholism vulnerability

  • Joannalee C. Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
    • ,
  • Karen K. Szumlinski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
    • Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
    • ,
  • Tod E. Kippin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
    • Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660. Tel.: +1-805-893-2459; fax: +1-805-893-4303.

Received 16 December 2008 ,Revised 6 May 2009 ,Accepted 11 August 2009.

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