Corpus callosum damage in heavy marijuana use: Preliminary evidence from diffusion tensor tractography and tract-based spatial statistics

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1067-1074

  Arnone, D ^a   Barrick, T R ^b   Chengappa, S ^b   Mackay, C E ^a   Clark, C A ^c   Abou Saleh, M T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; ONSET AGE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER MAPPING TRACTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CANNABIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 44449109468     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.064     Document Type: Article

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