White matter impairment in heroin addicts undergoing methadone maintenance treatment and prolonged abstinence: A preliminary DTI study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 494, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-53

  Wang, Yarong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Yang, Weichuan ^a   Zhu, Jia ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Heroin; Methadone maintenance treatment; White matter

Indexed keywords

METHADONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953041124     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.02.053     Document Type: Article

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