Heroin Addiction Impairs Human Cortical Plasticity

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2017, Pages e49-e50

  Shen, Ying ^a,b   Cao, Xinyu ^c   Shan, Chunlei ^d   Dai, Wenjun ^b   Yuan, Ti Fei ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Da Lian Shan Institute of Addiction Rehabilitation   (China)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAVING; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CRAVING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84994291775     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.06.013     Document Type: Letter

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