2018
Enhanced Striatal Dopamine Release to Expectation of Alcohol: A Potential Risk Factor for Alcohol Use Disorder
Kegeles LS, Horga G, Ghazzaoui R, Rosengard R, Ojeil N, Xu X, Slifstein M, Petrakis I, O’Malley S, Krystal JH, Abi-Dargham A. Enhanced Striatal Dopamine Release to Expectation of Alcohol: A Potential Risk Factor for Alcohol Use Disorder. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience And Neuroimaging 2018, 3: 591-598. PMID: 29803635, PMCID: PMC6953614, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.03.018.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
Imaging human reward processing with positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging
Urban NB, Slifstein M, Meda S, Xu X, Ayoub R, Medina O, Pearlson GD, Krystal JH, Abi-Dargham A. Imaging human reward processing with positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Psychopharmacology 2011, 221: 67-77. PMID: 22052081, DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2543-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositron emission tomography studyMonetary incentive delay taskDopamine releaseVentral striatumBOLD activationVoxelwise analysisFMRI BOLD activationEndogenous dopamine releaseEmission tomography studiesROI analysisMesolimbic dopamine releaseFunctional magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingPositron emission tomographyReward processingBOLD signal changesFunctional neuroimaging studiesPrecommissural putamenIncentive delay taskSignal changesPosterior caudateStriatal subregionsHealthy subjectsGlutamatergic signalingPercent change