Multimodal neuroimaging studies combining proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 1 H-MRS)
to quantify GABA and/or glutamate concentrations and functional magnetic …

Evidence accumulated over more than 45 years has indicated that environmental stimuli
can induce craving for drugs of abuse in individuals who have addictive disorders. However, …

Background and Purpose—Premenopausal women are at lower risk than men for stroke,
but the comparative vulnerability to tissue injury once a cerebrovascular incident occurs is …

OBJECTIVE: The study assessed the validity of the Gambling Task as a test of decision-making
ability in adolescents and examined whether adolescents with behavior disorders, who …

OBJECTIVE: The characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) include
abnormalities in reward responsivity that may interfere with decision making. The study …

Background: We examined whether face‐emotion labeling deficits are illness‐specific or an
epiphenomenon of generalized impairment in pediatric psychiatric disorders involving mood …

In all, 19 research subjects, with current histories of frequent cocaine use, were exposed to
cocaine-related cues to elicit drug craving. We measured the change of occupancy of …

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and lateral prefrontal (LPFC) cortex are brain regions
important to executive cognitive functions (ECF). We determined ACC and LPFC function in 23-…

Cocaine abusers demonstrate faulty decision-making as manifested by their inability to
discontinue self-destructive drug-seeking behaviors. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays an …

Background and Purpose—The importance of postmenopausal estrogen replacement
therapy for stroke in females remains controversial. We previously showed that female rats …