| Description |
iv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
NIDA research monograph ; 163
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NIH publication ; no. 96-4019
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NIDA research monograph ; 163.
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NIH publication ; no. 96-4019.
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| Note |
"Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on July 7-8, 1994."--p. ii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cocaine addiction as a neurological disorder : implications for treatment -- Brain atrophy and chronic cocaine abuse : background and work in progress -- Neurologic complications of cocaine -- psychomotor and electroencephalographic sequelae of cocaine dependence -- Cocaine effects on dopamine and opioid peptide neural systems : implications for human cocaine abuse -- The neurotoxic effects of continuous cocaine and amphetamine in habenual : implications for the substrates of psychosis -- PET studies of cerebral glucose metabolism : acute effects of cocaine and long-term deficits in brains of drug abusers -- Cardiotoxic properties of cocaine : studies with positron emmisson tomography -- Neuropsychological abnormalities in cocaine abusers : possible correlates in SPECT neuroimaging -- Cocaine withdrawal alters regulatory elements of dopamine neurons -- EEG and evoked potentials alterations in cocaine-dependent individuals -- Is craving mood driven or self-propelled? : sensitization and "street" stimulant addiction -- Methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine neurotoxicity : possible mechanisms of cell destruction -- Stress, glucocorticoids, and mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons : a pathophysiological chain determining vulnerability to psychostimulant abuse -- Clinical and MRI evaluation of psychostimulant neurotoxicity. |
| Added Author |
Majewska, Maria Dorota.
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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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