Prefrontal white matter impairment in substance users depends upon the catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism

NeuroImage

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-69

  Zhang, Xiaochu ^a,e   Lee, Mary R ^a   Salmeron, Betty Jo ^a   Stein, Dan J ^b   Hong, L Elliot ^c   Geng, Xiujuan ^a   Ross, Thomas J ^a   Li, Nan ^e   Hodgkinson, Colin ^d   Shen, Pei Hong ^d   Yang, Yihong ^a   Goldman, David ^d   Stein, Elliot A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^e University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

Author keywords

Addiction; COMT; DTI; Genetics; Imaging; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATECHOL O METHYL TRANSFERASE GENE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL WHITE MATTER IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 84872283072     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.056     Document Type: Article

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