Abnormal structure of human striatal dopamine re-uptake sites in habitually violent alcoholic offenders: A fractal analysis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 195-197

  Kuikka, Jyrki T ^a   Tiihonen, Jari ^b   Bergström, Kim A ^a   Karhu, Jari ^a   Räsänen, Pirkko ^c   Eronen, Markku ^b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Alcoholism; Dopamine; Fractal; Single photon emission tomography; Striatum; Transporter

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRIATE CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0032508562     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00640-5     Document Type: Article

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