Neural correlates of the severity of cocaine, heroin, alcohol, MDMA and cannabis use in polysubstance abusers: A resting-PET brain metabolism study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Moreno López, Laura ^a   Stamatakis, Emmanuel A ^b   Fernández Serrano, Maria José ^c   Gómez Río, Manuel ^d   Rodríguez Fernández, Antonio ^d   Pérez García, Miguel ^a   Verdejo García, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PUTAMEN; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HEROIN; HUMANS; MALE; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REST; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

CANNABIS;

EID: 84863104147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039830     Document Type: Article

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