Risk, reversibility and resilience of brain circuitries linked to opioid dependence: A diffusion tensor imaging study of actively opioid-using subjects and three comparison groups.

CONCLUSION: Changes in Left IFC appear to predate the onset of addiction, conferring vulnerability, and persist during abstinence. Behavioral and neuro-psychological assessments concur with the imaging results. PMID: 30785033 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30785033?dopt=Abstract

Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry - February 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Asian J Psychiatr Source Type: research