Executive dysfunction in cocaine addiction: Evidence for discordant frontal, cingulate, and cerebellar activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 49, 2004, Pages 11017-11022

  Hester, Robert ^a   Garavan, Hugh ^a,b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cocaine; Executive function; fMRI; Response inhibition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 10944264984     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3321-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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