Striatal volume increases in active methamphetamine-dependent individuals and correlation with cognitive performance

Brain Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 553-572

  Jan, Reem K ^a   Lin, Joanne C ^a   Miles, Sylvester W ^a,b   Kydd, Rob R ^a   Russell, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cognition; Drug dependence; Go No go; Grey matter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Methamphetamine; Putamen; Striatum; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUTAMEN; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84879502639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci2040553     Document Type: Article

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