Are we compulsively chasing rainbows?

Olivier George¹, Serge H Ahmed², Nicholas W Gilpin^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. olgeorge@health.ucsd.edu.
² University of Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, EPHE, F-33000, Bordeaux, France.
³ Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁴ Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁵ Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁶ Southeast Louisiana VA Healthcare System (SLVHCS), New Orleans, LA, USA.

Review

Olivier George et al. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;47(12):2013-2015.

doi: 10.1038/s41386-022-01419-w. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Olivier George¹, Serge H Ahmed², Nicholas W Gilpin^{3

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¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. olgeorge@health.ucsd.edu.
² University of Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, EPHE, F-33000, Bordeaux, France.
³ Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁴ Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁵ Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
⁶ Southeast Louisiana VA Healthcare System (SLVHCS), New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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