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Can recreational doses of THC produce significant dopamine release in the human striatum?

Stokes PRA, Mehta MA, Curran HV, Breen G, Grasby PM. Can recreational doses of THC produce significant dopamine release in the human striatum? Neuroimage. October 2009;48(1):186-190.

Publication Date
October 2009

How Analyze was Used
“The deformed striatal atlas was used to sample counts from the add image using Analyze 8.0 software (www.analyzedirect.com).”

Keywords
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Corpus Striatum/drug effects/metabolism/radionuclide imaging
Dopamine/metabolism
Dronabinol/administration & dosage/blood/pharmacology
Female
Humans
Male
Positron-Emission Tomography (PET)
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychotropic Drugs/administration & dosage/blood/pharmacology
Raclopride

Author Affiliation(s)
Psychiatry Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London, UK. (PRAS, MAM, PMG)

Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, London, UK. (MAM)

Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London, London, UK. (HVC)

MRC Centre for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, London, UK. (GB)

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