Brain Imaging in Substance Abuse
Marc J. Kaufman (ed.)
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Brain Imaging in Substance Abuse

Research, Clinical, and Forensic Applications

Herausgegeben: Kaufman, Marc J.
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The last two decades have seen prodigious growth in the application of brain imaging methods to questions of substance abuse and addiction. Despite considerable advances in our understanding of the central effects of drugs provided by preclinical data, relatively little direct evidence was known of how substances of abuse affect the brain and other eNS processes in humans. Brain imaging techniques have allowed access to the human brain and enabled the asking of questions never before imagined. The positron emission tomography (PET) data ofVolkow and her colleagues in the late 1980s, showing th...