A preliminary examination of cortical neurotransmitter levels associated with heavy drinking in posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 281-287

  Pennington, David Louis ^a,b   Abé, Christoph ^c   Batki, Steven Laszlo ^a,b,d   Meyerhoff, Dieter Johannes ^a,b,e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Brain metabolite concentrations; GABA; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Neuronal injury; PTSD

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BRAIN CORTEX; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ASPARTIC ACID; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE; COMORBIDITY; CREATINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84934434651     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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