Sentences with phrase «of cocaine abusers»

So when we were getting these images of cocaine abusers, they looked like the brain images of stroke patients.

Not exact matches

V: At Brookhaven [National Laboratory] I was doing these studies on cocaine abusers, and after I'd seen a number of brain images, I realized I could distinguish a cocaine abuser from a control.

During imaging studies probing the causes of addiction, the insula often was activated when drug abusers were shown movies of others taking drugs or shown pictures of cocaine, heroin or nicotine.

Compared with drug - free people of the same age, the cocaine users also showed proportionally greater volume loss in prefrontal and temporal areas — the very areas that control the functions impaired in drug abusers.

Specifically, substance abusers (cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, heroin, and nicotine), but not marijuana abusers (14 ⇓ — 16), show reduced baseline availability of DA D2 receptors in striatum (reviewed ref.

Utility of crossover designs in clinical trials: Efficacy of desipramine vs. placebo in opioid - dependent cocaine abusers.