Perturbation of the glutamate-glutamine system in alcohol dependence and remission

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1359-1365

  Thoma, Robert ^a,b   Mullins, Paul ^a,c   Ruhl, David ^a   Monnig, Mollie ^a,d   Yeo, Ronald A ^d   Caprihan, Arvind ^a   Bogenschutz, Michael ^b   Lysne, Per ^a,d   Tonigan, Scott ^e   Kalyanam, Ravi ^a   Gasparovic, Charles ^a,d  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e Center on Alcoholism   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol use disorders; alcoholism; glutamate; glutamine; magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKER INVENTORY OF CONSEQUENCES; FEMALE; FORM 90; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TRITIUM;

EID: 79956047324     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.20     Document Type: Article

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