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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021

The Higher Parietal Cortical Thickness in Abstinent Methamphetamine Patients Is Correlated With Functional Connectivity and Age of First Usage.

Ru Yang, Lei He, Zhixue Zhang, Wenming Zhou, Jun Liu

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Ru YangDepartment of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Lei HeDepartment of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Zhixue ZhangDepartment of Radiology, The First Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China.
Wenming ZhouDepartment of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Yueyang, Yueyang, China.
Jun LiuDepartment of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.

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aimThis study aimed to explore the changes of cortical thickness in abstinent methamphetamine (MA) patients compared with healthy controls. MATERIALS AND

methodsThree-tesla structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was obtained from 38 abstinent methamphetamine-dependent (AMD) patients and 32 demographically equivalent healthy controls. The cortical thickness was assessed using FreeSurfer software. General linear model was used to get brain regions with significant different cortical thickness between groups (

resultsThe AMD group showed significant cortical thickness increase in one cluster located in the parietal cortex, including right posterior central gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, and superior parietal lobule. In addition, cortical thickness values of those regions were all significant and negatively correlated with the age when patients first used MA. The cortical thickness of right posterior gyrus were positively correlated with its functional connectivities with left middle frontal gyrus and both left and right medial orbitofrontal gyrus.

conclusionThe higher cortical thickness in the parietal cortex of the AMD group is in agreement with findings in related studies of increased glucose metabolism and gray matter volume. Importantly, the negative correlation between parietal cortical thickness and age of first MA suggested that adolescent brains are more vulnerable to MA's neurotoxic effect.

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addictionadolescentcortical thicknesslong-term abstinencemethamphetamine

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PMCPMC8435861

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