Gender difference

Hippocampal volume reduction in female but not male recent abstinent methamphetamine users

Authors: Jiang Du, Meina Quan, Wenxu Zhuang, Na Zhong, Haifeng Jiang, David N Kennedy, Amy Harrington, Douglas Ziedonis, Xiaoduo Fan, Min Zhao

Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Year Published: 2015

Growing evidence suggests abnormalities in brain morphology including hippocampal structure in patients with methamphetamine (MA) dependence. This study was performed to examine hippocampal volume in abstinent MA users, and to further explore its relationship with cognitive […]

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