Neurotoxicity and neuropathology associated with cocaine abuse / editor Maria Dorota Majewska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Contributor:

Majewska, Maria Dorota.

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Series:

NIDA research monograph ; 163.

NIH publication ; no. 96-4019.

NIDA research monograph

NIH publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cocaine--adverse effects.

Central Nervous System Diseases--pathology.

Nervous System Diseases--chemically induced.

Nervous System--drug effects.

Toxicology.

Cocaine--Physiological effect--Congresses.

Cocaine.

Cocaine--Physiological effect.

Central nervous system--Diseases--Congresses.

Central nervous system.

Central nervous system--Diseases.

Neuropharmacology--Congresses.

Neuropharmacology.

Medical Subjects:

Cocaine--adverse effects.

Central Nervous System Diseases--pathology.

Nervous System Diseases--chemically induced.

Nervous System--drug effects.

Toxicology.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

iv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rockville, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1996.

Contents:

Cocaine addiction as a neurological disorder : implications for treatment

Brain atrophy and chronic cocaine abuse : background and work in progress

Neurologic complications of cocaine

Psychomotor and electroencephalographic sequelae of cocaine dependence

Cocaine effects on dopamine and opioid peptide neural systems : implications for human cocaine abuse

Neurotoxic effects of continuous cocaine and amphetamine in habenula : implications for the substrates of psychosis

PET studies of cerebral glucose metabolism : acute effects of cocaine and long-term deficits in brains of drug abusers

Cardiotoxic properties of cocaine : studies with positron emissiontomography.

Neuropsychological abnormalities in cocaine abusers : possible correlates in SPECT neuroimaging

Cocaine withdrawal alters regulatory elements of dopamine neurons

EEG and evoked potentials alterations in cocaine-dependent individuals

Is craving mood driven or self-propelled? : sensitization and "street" stimulant addiction

Methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine neurotoxicity : possible mechanisms of cell destruction

Stress, glucocorticoids, and mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons : a pathophysiological chain determining vulnerability to psychostimulant abuse

Clinical and MRI evaluation of psychostimulant neurotoxicity

Neurotoxic versus neuroprotective actions of endogenous opioid peptides : implications for treatment of CNS injury.

Notes:

"Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on July 7-8, 1994."--p. ii.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

34936852