Sex, GABA, and nicotine: The impact of smoking on cortical GABA levels across the menstrual cycle as measured with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-48

  Epperson, C Neill ^a,b   O'Malley, Stephanie ^c   Czarkowski, Kathryn A ^a   Gueorguieva, Ralitza ^a,b   Jatlow, Peter ^a   Sanacora, Gerard ^a   Rothman, Douglas L ^a   Krystal, John H ^a   Mason, Graeme F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Suite 2H 100 York St New H ^*

Author keywords

abstinence; GABA; menstrual cycle; Nicotine; sex; smoking

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; COTININE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROGESTERONE; PROTONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 10644239274     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.021     Document Type: Article

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