Neurotoxicity and neuropathology associated with cocaine abuse
By: editor Maria Dorota Majewska.
Contributors: Majewska, Maria Dorota.; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Series: NIDA research monograph ;; 163; NIH publication ;; no. 96-4019
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Cocaine -- Toxicology -- Congresses.; Neurotoxicology -- Congresses.; Cocaine -- adverse effects -- congresses.; Central Nervous System Diseases -- pathology -- congresses.; Nervous System Diseases -- chemically induced -- congresses.; Nervous System -- drug effects -- congresses.; Toxicology -- congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on July 7-8, 1994."--p. ii.
Table of contents: title: Cocaine addiction as a neurological disorder : implications for treatment; title: Brain atrophy and chronic cocaine abuse : background and work in progress; title: Neurologic complications of cocaine; title: psychomotor and electroencephalographic sequelae of cocaine dependence; title: Cocaine effects on dopamine and opioid peptide neural systems : implications for human cocaine abuse; title: The neurotoxic effects of continuous cocaine and amphetamine in habenual : implications for the substrates of psychosis; title: PET studies of cerebral glucose metabolism : acute effects of cocaine and long-term deficits in brains of drug abusers; title: Cardiotoxic properties of cocaine : studies with positron emmisson tomography; title: Neuropsychological abnormalities in cocaine abusers : possible correlates in SPECT neuroimaging; title: Cocaine withdrawal alters regulatory elements of dopamine neurons; title: EEG and evoked potentials alterations in cocaine-dependent individuals; title: Is craving mood driven or self-propelled? : sensitization and "street" stimulant addiction; title: Methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine neurotoxicity : possible mechanisms of cell destruction; title: Stress, glucocorticoids, and mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons : a pathophysiological chain determining vulnerability to psychostimulant abuse; title: Clinical and MRI evaluation of psychostimulant neurotoxicity.