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Kuznetsov, A., Gutkin, B. (2020). Basal Ganglia: Dopaminergic Cell Models. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_86-3

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