Chronic alcohol intake abolishes the relationship between dopamine synthesis capacity and learning signals in the ventral striatum

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 477-486

  Deserno, Lorenz ^a,b,c   Beck, Anne ^a   Huys, Quentin J M ^d,e   Lorenz, Robert C ^a   Buchert, Ralph ^a   Buchholz, Hans Georg ^f   Plotkin, Michail ^a,g   Kumakara, Yoshitaka ^h   Cumming, Paul ⁱ   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^b,c   Grace, Anthony A ^j   Rapp, Michael A ^a,k   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^a,b   Heinz, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^g Vivantes   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

fMRI; PET; Alcohol addiction; Dopamine; Prediction error

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET-CT SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CRAVING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRAVING; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84922818804     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12802     Document Type: Article

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