Brain grey matter deficits in smokers: Focus on the cerebellum

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 517-522

  Kühn, Simone ^a,b   Romanowski, Alexander ^a   Schilling, Christina ^a,c   Mobascher, Arian ^d,e   Warbrick, Tracy ^e   Winterer, Georg ^e,f   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cerebellum; Nicotine; Smoking; SUIT toolbox; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING;

EID: 84861220497     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-011-0346-5     Document Type: Article

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