Effects of d-cycloserine on extinction of mesolimbic cue reactivity in alcoholism: A randomized placebo-controlled trial

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 232, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 2353-2362

  Kiefer, Falk ^a   Kirsch, Martina ^a   Bach, Patrick ^a   Hoffmann, Sabine ^a   Reinhard, Iris ^a   Jorde, Anne ^a   Von Der Goltz, Christoph ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^a   Mann, Karl ^a   Loeber, Sabine ^b   Vollstädt Klein, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcoholism; Cue reactivity; Cue exposure based extinction; d Cycloserine; fMRI

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CUE EXPOSURE BASED EXTINCTION TREATMENT; DORSAL STRIATUM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DRINKING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REINFORCEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; VENTRAL STRIATUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CUES; CYCLOSERINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930863968     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-015-3882-5     Document Type: Article

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