ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Brain tract structure predicts relapse to stimulant drug use.
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- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces nicotine dependence and potentially modulates white matter microstructure in smokers: a pilot study by diffusion spectrum imaging.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Addiction.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Altered insular functional activity among electronic cigarettes users with nicotine dependence.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Blunted Neurobehavioral Loss Anticipation Predicts Relapse to Stimulant Drug Use.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Structural projections to the nucleus accumbens link to impulsive components of human risk preference.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Implications of neuroimaging findings in addiction.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
- Challenges and future trends in wearable closed-loop neuromodulation to efficiently treat methamphetamine addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Connectome-based predictive modelling can predict follow-up craving after abstinence in individuals with opioid use disorders.General psychiatry · 2023Article
- Prefrontal-habenular microstructural impairments in human cocaine and heroin addiction.Neuron · 2022Article
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Abstract
Diffusion tractography allows identification and measurement of structural tracts in the human brain previously associated with motivated behavior in animal models. Recent findings indicate that the structural properties of a tract connecting the midbrain to nucleus accumbens (NAcc) are associated with a diagnosis of stimulant use disorder (SUD), but not relapse. In this preregistered study, we used diffusion tractography in a sample of patients treated for SUD (
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