Low doses of alcohol substantially decrease glucose metabolism in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 295-301

  Volkow, Nora D ^a,b   Wang, Gene Jack ^c   Franceschi, Dinko ^d   Fowler, Joanna S ^c   Thanos, Panayotis K ^c   Maynard, Laurence ^e   Gatley, S John ^c   Wong, Christopher ^c   Veech, Richard L ^b   Kunos, George ^b   Kai Li, Ting ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Middlesettlement Family Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; LORAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY METABOLISM; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 29244441979     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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