Editorial: Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction
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1 Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2 School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 3 Center of Medical Physics and Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China, 4 Centers for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 5 Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, 6 Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 7 Graduate School LEAD, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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