SHANK3 controls maturation of social reward circuits in the VTA

Bariselli, Sebastiano, Tzanoulinou, Stamatina, Glangetas, Christelle, Prévost-Solié, Clément, Pucci, Luca, Viguié, Joanna, Bezzi, Paola, O'Connor, Eoin C, Georges, François, Lüscher, Christian, Bellone, Camilla·2016·Nature Neuroscience
DOI 10.1038/nn.4319

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