Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: Neuroimaging findings and clinical implications

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 652-669

  Goldstein, Rita Z ^a   Volkow, Nora D ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANHEDONIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPULSION; DECISION MAKING; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WORKING MEMORY;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 80054801949     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3119     Document Type: Review

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