Frontal white matter integrity predictors of adult alcohol treatment outcome

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-268

  Sorg, Scott F ^a   Taylor, Michael J ^b,d   Alhassoon, Omar M ^b,e   Gongvatana, Assawin ^f   Theilmann, Rebecca J ^c   Frank, Lawrence R ^c,d   Grant, Igor ^b,d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; diffusion tensor imaging; frontal lobe; relapse; TBSS; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; TEMPERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855457734     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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