Cognitive Control and White Matter Callosal Microstructure in Methamphetamine-Dependent Subjects: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 122-128

  Salo, Ruth ^a   Nordahl, Thomas E ^a   Buonocore, Michael H ^a,b   Natsuaki, Yutaka ^a   Waters, Christy ^c   Moore, Charles D ^c   Galloway, Gantt P ^d   Leamon, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d St Luke's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; corpus callosum; diffusion tensor imaging; methamphetamine; Stroop; substance abuse

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; METHAMPHETAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57849157315     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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