Progressive White Matter Microstructure Damage in Male Chronic Heroin Dependent Individuals: A DTI and TBSS Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Qiu, Yingwei ^a   Jiang, Guihua ^a   Su, Huanhuan ^a   Lv, Xiaofei ^b   Zhang, Xuelin ^c   Tian, Junzhang ^a   Zhuo, Fuzhen ^a  

^a GUANGDONG SECOND PROVINCIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM SPLENIUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTALOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VOLUME OF INTEREST ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER LESION; WHITE MATTER MICROSTRUCTURE DAMAGE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GAME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

DIAMORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; NARCOTICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84877015033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063212     Document Type: Article

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