ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2019
Reduced volumes of the external and internal globus pallidus in male heroin addicts: a postmortem study.
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- Inverse pattern of GABAergic system impairment in the external versus internal globus pallidus in male heroin addicts.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Reduced anterior insular cortex volume in male heroin addicts: a postmortem study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Reduced habenular volumes and neuron numbers in male heroin addicts: a post-mortem study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Article
- Differential recruitment of ventral pallidal e-types by behaviorally salient stimuli during Pavlovian conditioning.iScience · 2021Article
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- Opioid and neuroHIV Comorbidity - Current and Future Perspectives.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2020Review
- The ventral pallidum and relapse in alcohol seeking.British journal of pharmacology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus was recently proposed as a potential new treatment target for opioid addiction. DBS requires computer-assisted-3D planning to implant the stimulation electrode precisely. As volumes of brain regions may differ in addiction compared to healthy controls, our aim was to investigate possible volume differences in addicts compared to healthy controls. Volumes of the globus pallidus externus (PE) and internus (PI) in heroin addicts (n = 14) and healthy controls (n = 12) were assessed using morphometry of serial whole-brain sections. Total brain volume was larger in the heroin group (mean 1479 ± 62 cm
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