Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 2 , Pages 133-145 , 28 February 2008

Chronic cigarette smoking modulates injury and short-term recovery of the medial temporal lobe in alcoholics

  • Stefan Gazdzinski

      Affiliations

    • Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street (114M), San Francisco, CA 94121, United States. Tel.: +1 415 221 4810x2553; fax: +1 415 668 2864.
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  • Timothy C. Durazzo

      Affiliations

    • Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Ping-Hong Yeh

      Affiliations

    • Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Dawn Hardin

      Affiliations

    • Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Peter Banys

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Dieter J. Meyerhoff

      Affiliations

    • Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States
    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

Received 3 November 2006 ,Revised 16 February 2007 ,Accepted 8 April 2007.

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