Effect of Brain Structure..BrainFunction,andBrain Connectivity on Relapse in Alcohol-Dependent Patients

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 842-853

  Beck, Anne ^a   Wüstenberg, Torsten ^a   Genauck, Alexander ^a   Wrase, Jana ^a   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^a   Smolka, Michael N ^b   Mann, Karl ^c   Heinz, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DETOXIFICATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE POTENTIAL; ORBITAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELAPSE; STIMULUS; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84865552810     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.2026     Document Type: Article

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