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. 2020 Jan 29:11:61.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00061. eCollection 2020.

The Transgenerational Consequences of the Interaction Between Humans and Molecules: Alcohol as a Cultural Artifact

Alberto Granato  1
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The Transgenerational Consequences of the Interaction Between Humans and Molecules: Alcohol as a Cultural Artifact

Alberto Granato. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: addiction; alcohol; development; dopamine; fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; intellectual disability; neurons; plasticity.

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Schematic diagram showing a neurobiological hypothesis to explain the trangenerational self-sustaining circle of drug addiction. Blue arrows represent connections among events occurring in the same individual, while the red arrow represents transgenerational events.
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