Brain cortical thickness in male adolescents with serious substance use and conduct problems

American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 414-424

  Chumachenko, Serhiy Y ^a   Sakai, Joseph T ^a   Dalwani, Manish S ^a   Mikulich Gilbertson, Susan K ^a   Dunn, Robin ^b   Tanabe, Jody ^a   Young, Susan ^a,c   McWilliams, Shannon K ^a   Banich, Marie T ^d   Crowley, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Institute for Behavioral Genetics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cortical thickness; Substance use

Indexed keywords

PSYCHEDELIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMPULSIVENESS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRECUNEUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; FRONTAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDUCT DISORDER; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84941119667     PISSN: 00952990     EISSN: 10979891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00952990.2015.1058389     Document Type: Article

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