Cannabis cue-induced brain activation correlates with drug craving in limbic and visual salience regions: Preliminary results

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 122-131

  Charboneau, Evonne J ^a,b   Dietrich, Mary S ^a,b,c   Park, Sohee ^a   Cao, Aize ^a,b,d   Watkins, Tristan J ^a,b   Blackford, Jennifer U ^a,b   Benningfield, Margaret M ^a,b   Martin, Peter R ^a,b   Buchowski, Maciej S ^a,b   Cowan, Ronald L ^a,b,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Drug abuse; Functional MRI

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CALCARINE SULCUS; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADDICTION; DRUG ABUSE; FUNCTIONAL MRI;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884817378     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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