Subjective and neural responses to intravenous alcohol in young adults with light and heavy drinking patterns

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 467-477

  Gilman, Jodi M ^a   Ramchandani, Vijay A ^a   Crouss, Tess ^a   Hommer, Daniel W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; alcoholism; fMRI; nucleus accumbens; reward; tolerance

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; REWARD; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; ETHANOL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84856034355     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.206     Document Type: Review

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