Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 197-208, February 2010

Methamphetamine facilitates female sexual behavior and enhances neuronal activation in the medial amygdala and ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus

  • Mary K. Holder

      Affiliations

    • Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 655 West Baltimore Street, BRB 4-002, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States. Tel.: +1 410 706 5581; fax: +1 410 706 0032.
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  • Maria M. Hadjimarkou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Current address: Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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  • Susan L. Zup

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Current address: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston, MA, United States.
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  • Tamara Blutstein

      Affiliations

    • Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
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  • Rebecca S. Benham

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Current address: Program in Biomedical Neurosciences, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
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  • Margaret M. McCarthy

      Affiliations

    • Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
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  • Jessica A. Mong

      Affiliations

    • Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    • Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201, United States

Received 12 March 2009; received in revised form 29 May 2009; accepted 8 June 2009.

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PII: S0306-4530(09)00195-4

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.06.005

Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 197-208, February 2010

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