Degradation of Association and Projection White Matter Systems in Alcoholism Detected with Quantitative Fiber Tracking

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 680-690

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Rosenbloom, Margaret ^a,b   Rohlfing, Torsten ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; brain; diffusion; DTI; fiber tracking; sex differences; white matter

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MYELIN SHEATH; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 62749083866     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.039     Document Type: Article

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