Interactive effects of chronic cigarette smoking and age on brain volumes in controls and alcohol-dependent individuals in early abstinence

Addiction Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-143

  Durazzo, Timothy C ^a,b   Mon, Anderson ^a   Pennington, David ^a,b   Abé, Christoph ^a,b   Gazdzinski, Stefan ^c   Meyerhoff, Dieter J ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; brain reward system; brain volume; cigarette smoking; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REWARD; SMOKING; SUBCORTEX; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE; BRAIN REWARD SYSTEM; BRAIN VOLUME; CIGARETTE SMOKING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REWARD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 84890800064     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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