Higher brain blood flow at amygdala and lower frontal cortex blood flow in PTSD patients with comorbid cocaine and alcohol abuse compared with normals

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-74

  Semple, William E ^a,b   Goyer, Peter F ^a,b   McCormick, Richard ^a,b   Donovan, Beverly ^b   Muzic, Raymond F ^a   Rugle, Loreen ^c   McCutcheon, Kevan ^b   Lewis, Colleen ^b   Liebling, David ^a,b   Kowaliw, Sean ^a   Vapenik, Ken ^b   Semple, Mary Ann ^d   Flener, Christy R ^a,b   Schulz, S Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Tirmeridian Inc   (United States)

^d Vatastat Graphics Consulting Ind   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034119827     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/00332747.2000.11024895     Document Type: Article

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