Reduced volume of the nucleus accumbens in heroin addiction

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 265, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 637-645

  Seifert, Christian L ^a,b   Magon, Stefano ^c   Sprenger, Till ^c   Lang, Undine E ^a   Huber, Christian G ^a   Denier, Niklaus ^a   Vogel, Marc ^a   Schmidt, André ^a,c   Radue, Ernst Wilhelm ^c   Borgwardt, Stefan ^a,c   Walter, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diacetylmorphine; Grey matter changes; Heroin addiction; Nucleus accumbens; Subcortical

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84944352613     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-014-0564-y     Document Type: Article

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