Metabolite levels in the brain reward pathway discriminate those who remain abstinent from those who resume hazardous alcohol consumption after treatment for alcohol dependence.

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Published in J Stud Alcohol Drugs on March 01, 2010

Authors

Timothy C Durazzo1, Varsha Pathak, Stefan Gazdzinski, Anderson Mon, Dieter J Meyerhoff

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (114M), San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA. timothy.durazzo@ucsf.edu

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