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Imaging Usual Addictions: Tobacco, Canabis and Alcohol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C. Leroy ,
S. Chanraud ,
E. Artiges ,
C. Martelli ,
A. Cachia ,
J. Andoh ,
N. Kostogianni ,
Y. Berlin ,
M. Reynaud  and
H.J. Aubin
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C. Leroy
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France
S. Chanraud
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France
E. Artiges
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France Orsay Hospital, Psychiatry Department 91G16, Bures / Yvette, France
C. Martelli
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France APHP, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France
A. Cachia
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France
J. Andoh
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France
N. Kostogianni
Affiliation:
APHP, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France
Y. Berlin
Affiliation:
APHP, Pharmacology Dept, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
M. Reynaud
Affiliation:
APHP, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France
H.J. Aubin
Affiliation:
APHP, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France APHP, Addiction Treatment Center, Emile Roux Hospital, Limeil-Brevannes, France
C. Trichard
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France Orsay Hospital, Psychiatry Department 91G16, Bures / Yvette, France
J.-L. Martinot
Affiliation:
INSERM - CEA, Research Unit U 797 ‘Neuroimaging & Psychiatry’, Hospital Department Frédéric Joliot & Neurospin, Orsay, France IBM, IFR49, Orsay, France

Abstract

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Background:

Brain models of drug addiction are being tackled in humans, using PET and MRI.

Results:

  1. 1. Whereas tobacco and cannabis do not interact directly with dopamine sites, positron emission tomography detected lower availability in sites regulating the catecholamines homeostasis, notably in dopamine transporter sites in striatal and in extrastriatal regions. This further supports repeated and long term substance use progress towards an adaptative diminished basal dopamine level that would contribute to the switch to an addicted brain.

  2. 2. Alcohol: abnormalities in brain macro- and micro- structure were searched in detoxified alcohol-dependents with preserved psychosocial functioning:

    1. - Brain function (fMRI): fronto-cerebellar overactivation detected during an auditory language task in alcohol-dependents may reflect the compensatory effort required for patients to maintain the same level of performance as controls.

    2. - Brain macrostructure (MRI). Widespread lower white matter volumes, and lower grey matter volumes in the frontal lobe, insula, hippocampus, thalami and cerebellum, were detected. Poorer neuropsychological performance correlated with smaller grey matter volumes in these regions and with lower white matter volume in the brainstem.

    3. - Brain microstructure (DTI): tractography of white matter fiber bundles revealed that brainstem bundles alteration may contribute to cognitive flexibility impairment. Regression analyses showed memory scores were related to brain microstructure in parahippocampal areas, frontal cortex, and left temporal cortex. This suggest diffusion imaging (DTI) is a useful probe to early alcohol-induced brain alterations.

Conclusion:

While indices of dopamine down-regulation are consistency detected in several drug addictions, even “socially-adapted” alcohol dependence may induce change in brain structure.

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Type
S33-03
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E174
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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