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Previous work indicates that the infralimbic cortex (IL) mediates extinction learning and actively suppresses cocaine-seeking during reinstatement, following cocaine self-administration. Despite extensive work supporting this role for IL activity, how and under exactly which con…

This thesis studies non-simple Jacobians and non-simple abelian varieties. The moti- vation of the study is a construction which gives a distinguished genus 4 curve in the linear system of a (1, 3)-polarised surface. The main theorem characterises such curves as hyperelliptic ge…