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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2020

The Role of Gamma Oscillations in the Pathophysiology of Substance Use Disorders.

Jessica U Ramlakhan, Ming Ma, Reza Zomorrodi, Daniel M Blumberger, Yoshihiro Noda, Mera S Barr

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Novel neurotherapeutic targets for substance use disorders: Neuroplasticity, neuroinflammation, gasotransmitters and non-canonical organ systems.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  4. Phase-synchronized 40 Hz tACS and iTBS effects on gamma oscillations.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jessica U RamlakhanTemerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Division of Mood and Anxiety, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J1H4, Canada.
Ming MaTemerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Division of Mood and Anxiety, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J1H4, Canada.
Reza ZomorrodiTemerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Division of Mood and Anxiety, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J1H4, Canada.
Daniel M BlumbergerTemerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Division of Mood and Anxiety, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J1H4, Canada.
Yoshihiro NodaMultidisciplinary Translational Research Lab, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2155-0357
Mera S BarrTemerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Division of Mood and Anxiety, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J1H4, Canada.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health · CAKeio University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a major public health problem-with over 200 million people reporting drug use in 2016. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a powerful tool that can provide insights into the impact of SUDs on cognition. Specifically, modulated gamma activity may provide an index of the pathophysiology of SUDs. Thus, the purpose of this review was to investigate the impact of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and amphetamine on gamma activity, among pre-clinical and clinical populations during acute and chronic exposure and withdrawal states. We searched multiple databases for key terms related to SUDs, EEG, and gamma and ensured rigorous methods by using a standardized review reporting tool. We included 30 studies in this review and found that all substances were associated with modulation of gamma activity, across states and in both preclinical and clinical populations. Gamma oscillations appeared to be differentially modulated in clinical versus preclinical populations and had the most complex relationship with alcohol, indicating that it may act differently than other substances. The findings of this review offer insights into the pathophysiology of SUDs, providing a potential window into novel treatments for SUDs via modulation of gamma activity.

Indexed as

alcoholcannabiscognitionco-morbiditygamma oscillationstobacco

Identifiers

PMID33379187
PMCPMC7824040
OpenAlexW3115061346

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Registered trials

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