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Effect of vision, touch and stance on cerebellar vermian-related sway and tremor: a quantitative physiological and MRI studyEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:1077-86. 2006....
In vivo quantification of ethanol kinetics in rat brainElfar Adalsteinsson
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 31:2683-91. 2006..Serial proton spectroscopy measurements provide a valid in vivo method for quantifying brain alcohol uptake and elimination kinetics in real time...
Diffusion tensor imaging and agingEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 30:749-61. 2006..These hypotheses are not mutually exclusive but establish a basis for posing testable questions about brain systems recruited when those used in youth are altered by aging...
Neurocircuitry in alcoholism: a substrate of disruption and repairEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 180:583-94. 2005....
Effects of alcohol dependence comorbidity and antipsychotic medication on volumes of the thalamus and pons in schizophreniaEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1110-6. 2003..The authors sought to determine whether patients with both schizophrenia and alcohol dependence would manifest exaggerated volume deficits in either structure...
Neuroimaging of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndromeEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 44:155-65. 2009....
Neuroinflammation as a neurotoxic mechanism in alcoholism: commentary on "Increased MCP-1 and microglia in various regions of human alcoholic brain"Edith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Exp Neurol 213:10-7. 2008
Compromised pontocerebellar and cerebellothalamocortical systems: speculations on their contributions to cognitive and motor impairment in nonamnesic alcoholismEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1409-19. 2003....
Quantitative fiber tracking of lateral and interhemispheric white matter systems in normal aging: relations to timed performanceEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine MC5723, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, United States
Neurobiol Aging 31:464-81. 2010....
Hippocampal volume deficits in alcoholic Korsakoff's syndromeEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neurology 61:1716-9. 2003..To examine whether the amnesic syndrome of alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) originates from pathology of the hippocampus and not solely the diencephalon...
Effects of age and sex on volumes of the thalamus, pons, and cortexEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Neurobiol Aging 25:185-92. 2004..Both pontine and cortical white matter volumes remained stable across the age span in both men and women...
Postural sway reduction in aging men and women: relation to brain structure, cognitive status, and stabilizing factorsEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, United States
Neurobiol Aging 30:793-807. 2009..Thus, aging men and women were shown to have diminished postural control, associated with cognitive and brain structural involution, in unstable stance conditions and with diminished sensory input...
Alcohol and drug dependence: brain mechanisms and behavioral impactEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine (MC5723, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5723, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 17:235-8. 2007
Balance and gait deficits in schizophrenia compounded by the comorbidity of alcoholismEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavoiral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5723, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:751-5. 2004..Alcoholism carries a liability of balance and gait instability that persists with sobriety. Such deficits are less well documented in schizophrenia and may be compounded by comorbidity with alcoholism, which is prevalent in schizophrenia...
Neuroimaging of rodent and primate models of alcoholism: initial reports from the integrative neuroscience initiative on alcoholismEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:287-94. 2005....
Preservation of hippocampal volume throughout adulthood in healthy men and womenEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neurobiol Aging 26:1093-8. 2005..Absence of hippocampus age relationships endured when restricting analyses to older individuals (> or =50 years) and considering menopause and hormone replacement therapy...
Selective age-related degradation of anterior callosal fiber bundles quantified in vivo with fiber trackingEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cereb Cortex 16:1030-9. 2006....
Striatal and forebrain nuclei volumes: contribution to motor function and working memory deficits in alcoholismEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:768-76. 2005..Basal forebrain structures hold cholinergic mechanisms influencing memory formation, vulnerable to chronic alcoholism; however, alcoholism's effect on volumes of these structures has seldom been considered with in vivo measurement...
Physiological and focal cerebellar substrates of abnormal postural sway and tremor in alcoholic womenEdith V Sullivan
Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Biol Psychiatry 67:44-51. 2010....
Pontocerebellar volume deficits and ataxia in alcoholic men and women: no evidence for "telescoping"Edith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 208:279-90. 2010....
Differential rates of regional brain change in callosal and ventricular size: a 4-year longitudinal MRI study of elderly menE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cereb Cortex 12:438-45. 2002....
A profile of neuropsychological deficits in alcoholic womenEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychology 16:74-83. 2002..The alcohol-related deficits in working memory, visuospatial, and balance implicate disruption of prefrontal, superior parietal, and cerebellar brain systems...
Heritability of hippocampal size in elderly twin men: equivalent influence from genes and environmentE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5723, USA
Hippocampus 11:754-62. 2001..Considering the potential of environmental modification of this structure suggested by lower heritability, the hippocampus appears well-suited to support the dynamic processes of encoding and consolidation of new, declarataive memories...
Magnetic resonance relaxometry reveals central pontine abnormalities in clinically asymptomatic alcoholic menE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 25:1206-12. 2001....
Motor sequencing deficits in schizophrenia: a comparison with Parkinson's diseaseE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychology 15:342-50. 2001....
Sex differences in corpus callosum size: relationship to age and intracranial sizeE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Neurobiol Aging 22:603-11. 2001..Sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum is not a simple artifact of sex differences in brain size and may reflect differences in connectivity necessitated by differences in brain size...
Contribution of alcohol abuse to cerebellar volume deficits in men with schizophreniaE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 5717, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305 5717, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 57:894-902. 2000..Complicating such investigations is the high incidence of alcoholism comorbidity in patients with schizophrenia that itself can contribute to cerebellar abnormalities...
Cerebellar volume decline in normal aging, alcoholism, and Korsakoff's syndrome: relation to ataxiaE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5717, USA
Neuropsychology 14:341-52. 2000..Regional distribution but not severity of cerebellar volume deficits is similar in alcoholic individuals whether or not complicated by KS and relates to ataxia...
Pattern of motor and cognitive deficits in detoxified alcoholic menE V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5717, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24:611-21. 2000....
Pontocerebellar contribution to postural instability and psychomotor slowing in HIV infection without dementiaEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Brain Imaging Behav 5:12-24. 2011..Postural stability and psychomotor speed were impaired and attributable, at least in part, to compromised infratentorial brain systems...
Speed and efficiency but not accuracy or timing deficits of limb movements in alcoholic men and womenEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:705-13. 2002..Whether evidence for such dysfunction lingers in patients with uncomplicated alcoholism, which is known to affect cerebellar structural integrity, is controversial...
Mechanisms of postural control in alcoholic men and women: biomechanical analysis of musculoskeletal coordination during quiet standingEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:528-37. 2010..Whether alcoholic men and women who have remained abstinent from alcohol for weeks to months differ from each other in the degree of residual postural instability and biomechanical control mechanisms has not been directly tested...
Fiber tracking functionally distinct components of the internal capsuleEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:4155-63. 2010....
Longitudinal study of callosal microstructure in the normal adult aging brain using quantitative DTI fiber trackingEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 35:233-56. 2010....
Dual tasking and working memory in alcoholism: relation to frontocerebellar circuitrySandra Chanraud
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 35:1868-78. 2010....
Development and resolution of brain lesions caused by pyrithiamine- and dietary-induced thiamine deficiency and alcohol exposure in the alcohol-preferring rat: a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy studyAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 32:1159-77. 2007....
Low striatal glutamate levels underlie cognitive decline in the elderly: evidence from in vivo molecular spectroscopyNatalie M Zahr
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:2241-50. 2008..The selective relations between performance and striatal Glu provide initial and novel, human in vivo support for age-related modification of Glu levels as contributing to cognitive decline in normal aging...
Recovery of short-term memory and psychomotor speed but not postural stability with long-term sobriety in alcoholic womenMargaret J Rosenbloom
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuropsychology 18:589-97. 2004..By Year 4, 13 of 14 returners had maintained sobriety for more than 30 months; as a group, these women had returned to normal levels on tests of memory and psychomotor speed but remained impaired in standing balance...
Brain injury and recovery following binge ethanol: evidence from in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopyNatalie M Zahr
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Biol Psychiatry 67:846-54. 2010..The current in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy study was conducted to test the hypothesis that binge EtOH exposure would injure but not cause the death of neurons as previously ascertained postmortem...
In vivo glutamate decline associated with kainic acid-induced status epilepticusNatalie M Zahr
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Brain Res 1300:65-78. 2009..Taken together, these results support the conclusion that seizure activity following KA infusion causes loss of glutamatergic neurons...
Working and episodic memory in HIV infection, alcoholism, and their comorbidity: baseline and 1-year follow-up examinationsRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:1815-24. 2009....
Diffusion tensor imaging with quantitative fibre tracking in HIV infection and alcoholism comorbidity: synergistic white matter damageAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Brain 130:48-64. 2007....
Local-global interference is modulated by age, sex and anterior corpus callosum sizeEva M Müller-Oehring
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences MC 5723, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Brain Res 1142:189-205. 2007....
Improvement in memory and static balance with abstinence in alcoholic men and women: selective relations with change in brain structureMargaret J Rosenbloom
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Psychiatry Res 155:91-102. 2007..Both memory and ataxia can improve with sustained sobriety, and brain-behavior associations suggest selective brain structural substrates for the changes observed...
Callosal microstructural abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease and alcoholism: same phenotype, different mechanismsAnne Lise Pitel
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Psychiatry Res 184:49-56. 2010..Conversely, in alcoholism, disruption of callosal microstructural integrity was related to shrinkage of the corpus callosum itself...
Preliminary evidence of reduced cognitive inhibition in methamphetamine-dependent individualsRuth Salo
Department of Psychiatry, UC Davis Medical Center, 2230 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Psychiatry Res 111:65-74. 2002..Furthermore, the dissociation between explicit attentional performance and priming effects suggests that some attentional functions are not as affected by long-term methamphetamine use as others...
Differential effect of HIV infection and alcoholism on conflict processing, attentional allocation, and perceptual load: evidence from a Stroop Match-to-Sample taskTilman Schulte
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:67-75. 2005..Although HIV alone did not demonstrate detectable impairment in performance, HIV conferred liability on attentional processes when combined with alcohol abuse...
Disruption of brain white matter microstructure by excessive intracellular and extracellular fluid in alcoholism: evidence from diffusion tensor imagingAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 30:423-32. 2005....
Persistent cognitive deficits in community-treated alcoholic men and women volunteering for research: limited contribution from psychiatric comorbidityMargaret J Rosenbloom
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:254-65. 2005..While unexpected, this finding suggests that, in this sample, poorer cognitive performance was more a function of alcoholism per se than nonalcoholic comorbidity...
Global-local interference is related to callosal compromise in alcoholism: a behavior-DTI association studyEva M Müller-Oehring
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:477-89. 2009....
Compounded brain volume deficits in schizophrenia-alcoholism comorbidityDaniel H Mathalon
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven 06516, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:245-52. 2003..Schizophrenia and alcoholism are characterized by brain volume abnormalities. Despite the frequent comorbidity of these conditions, the potentially compounded effects of comorbidity on brain structure have seldom been rigorously assessed...
Callosal degradation in HIV-1 infection predicts hierarchical perception: a DTI studyEva M Müller-Oehring
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:1133-43. 2010..We conclude that component processes of visuospatial perception are compromised in HIV-1 infection attributable, at least in part, to degraded callosal microstructural integrity relevant for local-global feature integration...
Disruption of frontocerebellar circuitry and function in alcoholismEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:301-9. 2003..Martin and Mitchell H. Parks; and Functional reorganization of the brain in alcoholism: neuroimaging evidence, by John E. Desmond, S.H. Annabel Chen, Michelle R. Pryor, Eve De Rosa, Adolf Pfefferbaum, and Edith V. Sullivan...
Enhanced release from proactive interference in nonamnesic alcoholic individuals: implications for impaired associative bindingEve De Rosa
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Neuropsychology 17:469-81. 2003..The absence of PI in alcoholic participants may reflect impaired configural binding of paired-associate stimuli while sparing the elemental ability to process each stimulus component...
Measurement of serum, liver, and brain cytokine induction, thiamine levels, and hepatopathology in rats exposed to a 4-day alcohol binge protocolNatalie M Zahr
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:1858-70. 2010....
In vivo evidence for alcohol-induced neurochemical changes in rat brain without protracted withdrawal, pronounced thiamine deficiency, or severe liver damageNatalie M Zahr
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 34:1427-42. 2009..Thus, we provide novel in vivo evidence for alcohol exposure as causing changes in brain chemistry in the absence of protracted withdrawal, pronounced thiamine deficiency, or severe liver damage...
Reproducibility study of whole-brain 1H spectroscopic imaging with automated quantificationMeng Gu
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 5488, USA
Magn Reson Med 60:542-7. 2008..The results demonstrate that reproducible whole-brain (1)H-MRSI data can be robustly obtained with the proposed methods...
Longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging study of the alcohol-preferring rat. Part I: adult brain growthEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1234-47. 2006....
Increased frontocerebellar activation in alcoholics during verbal working memory: an fMRI studyJohn E Desmond
Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroimage 19:1510-20. 2003....
Diffusion tensor imaging in normal aging and neuropsychiatric disordersEdith V Sullivan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Eur J Radiol 45:244-55. 2003..Investigations comparing diagnoses hold promise for contribution to differential diagnosis. Correlations with cognitive and motor performance provide evidence for functional ramifications of these diffusion measures...
In vivo metabolite differences between the basal ganglia and cerebellum of the rat brain detected with proton MRS at 3TDirk Mayer
Radiology Department Lucas MRS I Center Stanford University, 1201 Welch Road, P 273, Stanford, California 94305 5488, USA
Psychiatry Res 154:267-73. 2007....
Volumetric cerebral perfusion imaging in healthy adults: regional distribution, laterality, and repeatability of pulsed continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL)Adolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 182:266-73. 2010..High CBF in the posterior cingulate and posterior and central precuneus cortices in this task-free acquisition suggests high activity in these principal nodes of the "default mode network."..
In vivo fiber tracking in the rat brain on a clinical 3T MRI system using a high strength insert gradient coilDirk Mayer
Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Neuroimage 35:1077-85. 2007..An additional benefit of scanning at lower field strength, such as 3 T, is the reduction of artifacts due to main field inhomogeneity relative to higher field animal systems...
The human basal forebrain integrates the old and the newEve De Rosa
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
Neuron 41:825-37. 2004..These results provide evidence for parallel neural systems, each with the potential to resolve interference in the face of competing information...
Low N-acetyl-aspartate and high choline in the anterior cingulum of recently abstinent methamphetamine-dependent subjects: a preliminary proton MRS study. Magnetic resonance spectroscopyThomas E Nordahl
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 116:43-52. 2002..The neuronal compromise that these changes reflect may contribute to the attentional deficits and dampened reward system in MD...
Gray matter N-acetyl aspartate deficits in secondary progressive but not relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosisElfar Adalsteinsson
Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 24:1941-5. 2003....
Problem solving, working memory, and motor correlates of association and commissural fiber bundles in normal aging: a quantitative fiber tracking studyNatalie M Zahr
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neuroimage 44:1050-62. 2009....
Subject-matched templates for spatial normalizationTorsten Rohlfing
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 12:224-31. 2009..We demonstrate that such an approach is technically feasible and significantly improves spatial normalization accuracy over using a single template...
Using magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging to assess brain damage in alcoholicsMargaret Rosenbloom
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Alcohol Res Health 27:146-52. 2003..Ultimately DTI may be useful in elucidating the mechanisms that underlie macrostructural and functional brain changes seen with abstinence and relapse...
MR diffusion tensor imaging: a window into white matter integrity of the working brainSandra Chanraud
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine MC5723, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305 5723, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 20:209-25. 2010..Here we present an overview of the principles of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and its contribution to progress in our current understanding of normal and pathological brain function...
Regional striatal volume abnormalities in schizophrenia: effects of comorbidity for alcoholism, recency of alcoholic drinking, and antipsychotic medication typeAnjali Deshmukh
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Schizophr Res 79:189-200. 2005..Further, these cross-sectional data provide indirect support for at least partial recovery of nucleus accumbens volume with sobriety in alcoholics, regardless of schizophrenia comorbidity...
Cortical NAA deficits in HIV infection without dementia: influence of alcoholism comorbidityAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 30:1392-9. 2005..Further, the use of absolute measures revealed deficits in NAA and Cr that would have gone undetected if these metabolites were expressed as a ratio...
Dysmorphology and microstructural degradation of the corpus callosum: Interaction of age and alcoholismAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Neurobiol Aging 27:994-1009. 2006..Thus, despite abstinence from alcohol, the interaction of age and recent alcoholism history exerted a compounded untoward effect on callosal macrostructure and microstructure...
Alcoholic neurobiology: changes in dependence and recoveryFulton T Crews
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599 7178, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:1504-13. 2005....
Corpus callosum, pons, and cortical white matter in alcoholic womenAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:400-6. 2002..To measure the effect of alcohol abuse on white matter brain macrostructure in women with alcoholism and to determine whether observed abnormalities interact with age...
Motor sequencing in Parkinson's disease: relationship to executive function and motor rigidityRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International
Cortex 38:753-67. 2002..The results further suggest that the more complex the motor sequencing task, the more susceptible it is to influence from generalized cognitive sequencing ability...
Supratentorial profile of white matter microstructural integrity in recovering alcoholic men and womenAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Biol Psychiatry 59:364-72. 2006..The full extent of the white matter involvement in uncomplicated alcoholism, however, is unknown, yet knowledge of the distribution of white matter degradation might provide clues to mechanisms underlying the pathology...
The effects of alcoholism on auditory evoked potentials during sleepChristian L Nicholas
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J Sleep Res 11:247-53. 2002..The finding also suggests that the evoked K-complex may be a relatively simple measure of the effect of alcoholism on EEG during sleep...
A dissociation in attentional control: evidence from methamphetamine dependenceRuth Salo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Imaging Research Center, University of California Davis 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:310-3. 2005..The goal of this study was to test whether task-shifting, selective inhibition, or both processes were impaired in long-term but currently abstinent methamphetamine-dependent individuals...
Clinical signs of cerebellar dysfunction in schizophrenia, alcoholism, and their comorbidityAnjali Deshmukh
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Schizophr Res 57:281-91. 2002..By contrast, clinical signs of cerebellar dysfunction of gait and stance in patients with schizophrenia may be secondary to the effects of alcohol on the cerebellum...
Frontal circuitry degradation marks healthy adult aging: Evidence from diffusion tensor imagingAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, USA
Neuroimage 26:891-9. 2005..The selective decline of anterior anisotropy with advancing age provides evidence for the potential of a microstructural white matter mechanism for the commonly observed decline in frontally-based functions...
Increased brain white matter diffusivity in normal adult aging: relationship to anisotropy and partial volumingAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
Magn Reson Med 49:953-61. 2003..25 in healthy adults may reflect partial voluming rather than actual changes in white matter coherence...
Dissociation of remote and anterograde memory impairment and neural correlates in alcoholic Korsakoff syndromeRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:427-41. 2004....
Component cognitive and motor processes of the digit symbol test: differential deficits in alcoholism, HIV infection, and their comorbidityStephanie A Sassoon
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1315-24. 2007....
Postmortem MR imaging of formalin-fixed human brainAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Neuroimage 21:1585-95. 2004..Examples of high-resolution images and results from attempts at diffusion imaging are presented...
Interaction of thiamine deficiency and voluntary alcohol consumption disrupts rat corpus callosum ultrastructureXiaohua He
Department of Pathology D06, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Neuropsychopharmacology 32:2207-16. 2007....
Morphological changes in aging brain structures are differentially affected by time-linked environmental influences despite strong genetic stabilityAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Center for Health Sciences BN 115, 333 Ravenswood Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Neurobiol Aging 25:175-83. 2004..Genetic stability was present even in old age when brain and other morphological changes can be rapid and highly variable across individuals, inconsistent with an hypothesis that random DNA damage is the cause of aging...
Alcoholism, HIV infection, and their comorbidity: factors affecting self-rated health-related quality of lifeMargaret J Rosenbloom
Neuroscience Program, Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:115-25. 2007..We sought to determine whether comorbidity for both disorders further reduced HRQOL and what factors exacerbated or mitigated their effect...
Perceptual learning in detoxified alcoholic men: contributions from explicit memory, executive function, and ageRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:1657-65. 2004..e., frontal executive systems) to perform the same task at normal levels. Use of more demanding cognitive systems by the alcoholics may be less efficient and more costly to processing capacity than those invoked by controls...
Contribution of alcoholism to brain dysmorphology in HIV infection: effects on the ventricles and corpus callosumAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, CA 94025, USA
Neuroimage 33:239-51. 2006....
Longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging study of the alcohol-preferring rat. Part II: effects of voluntary chronic alcohol consumptionAdolf Pfefferbaum
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1248-61. 2006..CONCLUSION: The P rats showed an age-alcohol interaction different from humans, in that normal growth in selective brain regions that continues in adult rats was retarded...
Visuoperceptual learning in alcoholic Korsakoff syndromeRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:680-7. 2006..This process is likely mediated by posterior cortical networks relatively unaffected in KS and that are independent of the hippocampal-diencephalic declarative memory system...
Deformation-based brain morphometry to track the course of alcoholism: differences between intra-subject and inter-subject analysisTorsten Rohlfing
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 3943, USA
Psychiatry Res 146:157-70. 2006..This discrepancy in results underscores the importance of distinguishing between volume differences and volume changes in morphometric analyses...
Alcoholic men endorse more DSM-IV withdrawal symptoms than alcoholic women matched in drinking historyAnjali Deshmukh
Neuroscience Program, SR International, Menlo Park, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:375-9. 2003..Despite this similarity, the DSM criteria were sensitive to gender differences, which can now be challenged with rigorous testing...
Upper and lower limb motor impairments in alcoholism, HIV infection, and their comorbidityRosemary Fama
Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1038-44. 2007....
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- CEREBELLAR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ALCOHOLISMEdith Sullivan; Fiscal Year: 2007..systems in excess of those recruited by controls, and this would have the untoward outcome of reducing processing capacity available for simultaneous performance of other tasks, including maintenance of postural stability ..
- NORMAL AGING OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONEDITH VIONI SULLIVAN; Fiscal Year: 2010..Initiate longitudinal 4-year follow-up data collection to test hypotheses regarding selective accelerated deterioration of frontally-based brain systems in normal aging. ..
- NORMAL AGING OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONEdith Sullivan; Fiscal Year: 2007..Initiate longitudinal 4-year follow-up data collection to test hypotheses regarding selective accelerated deterioration of frontally-based brain systems in normal aging. ..
- NORMAL AGING OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONEdith Sullivan; Fiscal Year: 2009..Initiate longitudinal 4-year follow-up data collection to test hypotheses regarding selective accelerated deterioration of frontally-based brain systems in normal aging. ..
- NORMAL AGING OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONEdith Sullivan; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- CEREBELLAR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ALCOHOLISMEdith Sullivan; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
