Intravenous ethanol infusion decreases human cortical γ-aminobutyric acid and N-acetylaspartate as measured with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 4 tesla

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-246

  Gomez, Rosane ^a   Behar, Kevin L ^c   Watzl, June ^b   Weinzimer, Stuart A ^c   Gulanski, Barbara ^c   Sanacora, Gerard ^c   Koretski, Julia ^c   Guidone, Elizabeth ^c   Jiang, Lihong ^b   Petrakis, Ismene L ^c   Pittman, Brian ^c   Krystal, John H ^c   Mason, Graeme F ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

1H MRS; alcohol; brain; GABA; glutamate; NAA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; SCYLLO INOSITOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BREATH ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BREATH TESTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIPEPTIDES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE;

EID: 84855421463     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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