Role of dopamine, the frontal cortex and memory circuits in drug addiction: Insight from imaging studies

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 610-624

  Volkow, Nora D ^a   Fowler, Joanna S ^b   Wang, Gene Jack ^a   Goldstein, Rita Z ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

BRAIN CIRCULATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTOXICATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0036881792     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.2002.4099     Document Type: Review

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