Assessing cue-induced brain response as a function of abstinence duration in heroin-dependent individuals: an event-related fMRI study.

The brain activity induced by heroin-related cues may play a role in the maintenance of heroin dependence. Whether the reinforcement or processing biases construct an everlasting feature of heroin addiction remains to be resolved. We used an event-related fMRI paradigm to measure brain activation in...

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Main Authors: Qiang Li, Yarong Wang, Yi Zhang, Wei Li, Jia Zhu, Ying Zheng, Jiajie Chen, Liyan Zhao, Zhenyu Zhou, Yijun Liu, Wei Wang, Jie Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3646913?pdf=render