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Peptide and steroid hormone receptors as drug targets for enhancement of learning and memory performance

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Cognitive Enhancing Drugs

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“Then Dr Strauss said Charlie even if this fales your making a grate contribyushun to sience. This experimint has been successful on lots of animals but its never bin tried on a humen being. You will be the first. After the operashun Im gonna try to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard.” (sic) p. 8, Flowers For Angernon [1]

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