Functional neuroimaging studies of alcohol cue reactivity: A quantitative meta-analysis and systematic review

Addiction Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 121-133

  Schacht, Joseph P ^a,b   Anton, Raymond F ^a   Myrick, Hugh ^a  

^a MUSC Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation likelihood estimation; addiction; alcoholism; fMRI; PET

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84871796355     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00464.x     Document Type: Review

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