Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 3 , Pages 205-213 , 15 April 2008

Moderate doses of alcohol disrupt the functional organization of the human brain

  • Nora D. Volkow

      Affiliations

    • National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
    • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 5635 Fishers Lane, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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  • Yeming Ma

      Affiliations

    • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 5635 Fishers Lane, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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  • Wei Zhu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: + 1 631 632 8374; fax: +1 631 632 8490.
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  • Joanna S. Fowler

      Affiliations

    • Medical and Chemistry Departments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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  • Juan Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600, USA
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  • Manlong Rao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600, USA
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  • Klaus Mueller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • Kith Pradhan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • Christopher Wong

      Affiliations

    • Medical and Chemistry Departments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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  • Gene-Jack Wang

      Affiliations

    • Medical and Chemistry Departments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

Received 14 November 2006 ,Revised 27 March 2007 ,Accepted 8 April 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00093-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.04.010

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 3 , Pages 205-213 , 15 April 2008

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