Abstinent chronic crack-cocaine and crack-cocaine/alcohol abusers evidence normal hippocampal volumes on MRI despite persistent cognitive impairments

Addiction Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 261-270

  Di Sclafani, Victoria ^a   Truran, Diana L ^a   Bloomer, Courtnay ^a   Tolou Shams, Marina ^a   Clark, H Westley ^a,c   Norman, David ^b   Hannauer, David ^a   Fein, George ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0031846534     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13556219872074     Document Type: Article

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