Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 173, Issue 3 , Pages 228-237 , 30 September 2009

Altered white matter microstructure in adolescent substance users

  • Sunita Bava

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • ,
  • Lawrence R. Frank

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    • ,
  • Tim McQueeny

      Affiliations

    • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    • ,
  • Brian C. Schweinsburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    • ,
  • Alecia D. Schweinsburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    • ,
  • Susan F. Tapert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. VA San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive 116B, San Diego, CA 92161, USA. Tel.: +1 858 552 8585x2599; fax: +1 858 642 6474.

Received 2 December 2008 ,Revised 10 March 2009 ,Accepted 9 April 2009.

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