Brain maturation may be arrested in chronic cocaine addicts

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 605-611

  Bartzokis, George ^a,b,c,f   Beckson, Mace ^c,d   Lu, Po H ^c,d   Edwards, Nancy ^c,d   Bridge, Peter ^e   Mintz, Jim ^c,d  

^a CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Aging; Brain; Cocaine; Frontal lobe; Gray matter; Maturation; Myelin; Temporal lobe; White matter

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037090574     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01315-X     Document Type: Article

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