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

Format:

• Book

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--Physiological effect.
• Central nervous system--Diseases--Congresses.
• 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