Abnormal frontal activations related to decision-making in current and former amphetamine and opiate dependent individuals

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 612-623

  Ersche, K D ^a   Fletcher, P C ^a   Lewis, S J G ^a   Clark, L ^a,b   Stocks Gee, G ^a   London, M ^c   Deakin, J B ^a   Robbins, T W ^a,b   Sahakian, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c Brookfields Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Amphetamine; Decision making; Dorsolateral; Neuroimaging; Opiates; Orbitofrontal; Prefrontal; Risk taking; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; OPIATE;

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG USE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944466471     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2205-7     Document Type: Article

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