Neural correlates of verbal learning in adolescent alcohol and marijuana users

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 564-573

  Schweinsburg, Alecia Dager ^a   Schweinsburg, Brian C ^a   Nagel, Bonnie J ^b   Eyler, Lisa T ^c   Tapert, Susan F ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Alcohol; Binge drinking; Cannabis; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Verbal learning

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79551627820     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03197.x     Document Type: Article

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