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Animal Models for Alcoholism

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The final chapter in this section focuses on attempts to develop animal models of human alcohol abuse. A number of other topics could have been chosen for this, the fourth case example. Why alcoholism?

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McKinney, W.T. (1988). Animal Models for Alcoholism. In: Models of Mental Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5430-7_7

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