Sex differences in the neuroanatomy of alcohol dependence: hippocampus and amygdala subregions in a sample of 966 people from the ENIGMA Addiction Working Group

Abstract Males and females with alcohol dependence have distinct mental health and cognitive problems. Animal models of addiction postulate that the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are partially distinct, but there is little evidence of sex differences in humans with alcohol dependence as most...

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Main Authors: Sally Grace, Maria Gloria Rossetti, Nicholas Allen, Albert Batalla, Marcella Bellani, Paolo Brambilla, Yann Chye, Janna Cousijn, Anna E Goudriaan, Robert Hester, Kent Hutchison, Izelle Labuschagne, Reza Momenan, Rocio Martin-Santos, Peter Rendell, Nadia Solowij, Rajita Sinha, Chiang-shan Ray Li, Lianne Schmaal, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Chao Suo, Gill Terrett, Ruth J. van Holst, Dick J. Veltman, Murat Yücel, Paul Thompson, Patricia Conrod, Scott Mackey, Hugh Garavan, Valentina Lorenzetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01204-1