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Neuroimaging Findings in Methamphetamine Abusers
Maryam Yasaminshirazi1 and Mehran Ahmadlou1,2*
1Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2Dynamic Brain Research Group, Tehran, Iran
- *Corresponding Author:
- Mehran Ahmadlou Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel: 0031649308887; Email: m.ahmadlou@nin.knaw.nl
Received date March 01, 2016; Accepted date June 22, 2016; Published date June 29, 2016
Citation: Yasaminshirazi M, Ahmadlou M (2016) Neuroimaging Findings in Methamphetamine Abusers. J Addict Res Ther 7:285. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000285
Copyright: © 2016 Yasaminshirazi M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Methamphetamine (MA) is a drug which has got a considerable prevalence of abuse in the world. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand the deficits and problems that it makes in brain, structurally and functionally, in order to increase knowledge of people about it and help finding better ways of treatments. Neuroimaging techniques as the most powerful tools to study the brain functions and structures, in the recent decades have been used to find out the brain deficits caused by the MA abuse. Here we would have a short review on the neuroimaging findings in MA abusers and the children with prenatally exposure to MA, with the focus on electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI studies.
