Recovery of cortical functioning in abstinent alcohol-dependent patients: Prefrontal brain oxygenation during verbal fluency at different phases during withdrawal

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-145

  Dresler, Thomas ^a   Schecklmann, Martin ^b   Ernst, Lena H ^c   Pohla, Christoph ^b   Warrings, Bodo ^a   Fischer, Matthias ^a   Polak, Thomas ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Brain imaging; Hypoperfusion; Near infrared spectroscopy; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TEMPERANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856750529     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2011.564654     Document Type: Article

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