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How “carrots and sticks” are encoded in the brain: Motivation, reward, addiction and fear

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Ramaswami, M. How “carrots and sticks” are encoded in the brain: Motivation, reward, addiction and fear. J. Biosci. 23, 163–164 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02720015

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