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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
This work was supported by U.S. Public Health Service grants DA-05490, 
DA-07359, and DA-04060; by the McKnight Endowment Fund for the 
Neurosciences; and by the Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities of the 
Connecticut Mental Health Center, State of Connecticut Department of Mental 
Health. 
AUTHORS 
Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D. 
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Associate Professor of Psychiatry and 
Pharmacology 
Clare M. Bergson, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Fellow 
Xavier Guitart, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Fellow 
Bruce T. Hope, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Fellow 
Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry 
Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology 
Yale University School of Medicine and Connecticut Mental Health Center 
34 Park Street 
New Haven, CT 06508 
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