Decreases in dopamine receptors but not in dopamine transporters in alcoholics

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1594-1598

  Volkow, Nora D ^a,b   Wang, Gene Jack ^a   Fowler, Joanna S ^a   Logan, Jean ^a   Hitzemann, Robert ^b,c   Ding, Yu Shin ^a   Pappas, Naomi ^a   Shea, Colleen ^a   Piscani, Kathleen ^c  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcoholism; GABA Neurons; Positron Emission Tomography; Raclopride

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CARBON 11; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; METHYLPHENIDATE; RACLOPRIDE;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030480583     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb05936.x     Document Type: Article

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