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What psychological process mediates feeding evoked by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus?

K C Berridge1, E S Valenstein

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

Behavioral Neuroscience
|February 1, 1991
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