Alcohol Dependence Is Associated with Blunted Dopamine Transmission in the Ventral Striatum - Martinez, Diana; Gil, Roberto; Slifstein, Mark; Hwang, Dah-Ren; Huang, Yiyun; Perez, Audrey; Kegeles, Lawrence; Talbot, Peter; Evans, Suzette; Krystal, John; Laruelle, Marc; Abi-Dargham, Anissa (Biological psychiatry (1969), 2005)
Keywords: Addictive behaviors; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Alcohol dependence; Alcoholism; Alcoholism - diagnosis; Alcoholism - diagnostic imaging; Alcoholism - metabolism; Alcoholism - physiopathology; amphetamine; Basal Ganglia - diagnostic imaging; Basal Ganglia - metabolism; Basal Ganglia - physiopathology; Biological and medical sciences; Carbon Radioisotopes; Dextroamphetamine - pharmacology; dopamine; Dopamine - metabolism; Dopamine - physiology; Female; Humans; Limbic System - drug effects; Limbic System - metabolism; Limbic System - physiopathology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; mesolimbic; Middle Aged; Neural Inhibition - drug effects; Neural Inhibition - physiology; Neuropharmacology; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; positron emission tomography (PET); Positron-Emission Tomography; Psychoanaleptics: cns stimulant, antidepressant agent, nootropic agent, mood stabilizer..., (alzheimer disease); Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Raclopride; Receptors, Dopamine D2 - drug effects; Receptors, Dopamine D2 - metabolism; Synaptic Transmission - drug effects; Synaptic Transmission - physiology; ventral striatum; amphetamine; Alcohol dependence; mesolimbic; positron emission tomography (PET); dopamine; ventral striatum; Amphetamine derivatives; Radionuclide study; Human; Dopamine; CNS stimulant; Psychotropic; Alcoholism; Central nervous system; Basal ganglion; Corpus striatum; Catecholamine; Encephalon; Chemotherapy; Treatment; Neurotransmitter; Amfetamine; Emission tomography