Correlation of Alcohol Craving With Striatal Dopamine Synthesis Capacity and D2 3 Receptor Availability: A Combined [18F]DOPA and [18F]DMFP PET Study in Detoxified Alcoholic Patients - Heinz, Andreas; Siessmeier, Thomas; Wrase, Jana; Buchholz, Hans Georg; Gründer, Gerhard; Kumakura, Yoshitaka; Cumming, Paul; Schreckenberger, Mathias; Smolka, Michael N.; Rösch, Frank; Mann, Karl; Bartenstein, Peter (The American journal of psychiatry, 2005)
Keywords: Addictive behaviors; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Alcoholism; Alcoholism - diagnostic imaging; Alcoholism - metabolism; Alcoholism - physiopathology; Behavior, Addictive - diagnostic imaging; Behavior, Addictive - metabolism; Behavior, Addictive - physiopathology; Biological and medical sciences; Blood-Brain Barrier - diagnostic imaging; Blood-Brain Barrier - metabolism; Corpus Striatum - diagnostic imaging; Corpus Striatum - metabolism; Dopamine - biosynthesis; Dopamine - physiology; Dopamine Agents - metabolism; Fluorine Radioisotopes; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Levodopa - metabolism; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Positron-Emission Tomography; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Receptors, Dopamine D2 - metabolism; Receptors, Dopamine D2 - physiology; Receptors, Dopamine D3; Recurrence; Risk Factors; Salicylamides - metabolism; Radionuclide study; Human; Dopamine; Alcoholism; Craving; Central nervous system; Basal ganglion; Biosynthesis; Corpus striatum; Catecholamine; Antiparkinson agent; Encephalon; Alcoholic beverage; Aminoacid; Neurotransmitter; Emission tomography