Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 393-400 , August 2010

Should mood during intravenous alcohol administration be studied as a bi- or unipolar phenomenon? a pilot study

  • Lars Saxon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Dependency Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
    • ,
  • Stefan Skagerberg

      Affiliations

    • Swedish Prison and Probation Administration, Norrköping, Sweden
    • ,
  • Stefan Borg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Dependency Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
    • ,
  • Arto J. Hiltunen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Karlstad University, S-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-054-700-22-02; mobile: +46-76-845-80-35.

Received 24 April 2009 ,Revised 16 April 2010 ,Accepted 12 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2010.05.007

Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 393-400 , August 2010

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