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Nora D. Volkow
Researcher at National Institute on Drug Abuse
Publications - 1038
Citations - 121498
Nora D. Volkow is an academic researcher from National Institute on Drug Abuse. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dopamine & Addiction. The author has an hindex of 165, co-authored 958 publications receiving 107463 citations. Previous affiliations of Nora D. Volkow include National Institutes of Health & North Shore University Hospital.
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Exenatide once weekly for alcohol use disorder investigated in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial
Mette K. Klausen,Mathias E. Jensen,M Møller,Nina le Dous,Anne-Marie Ø Jensen,Victoria A Zeeman,Claas-Frederik Johannsen,Alycia M. Lee,Gerda Thomsen,Julian Macoveanu,Patrick M. Fisher,Matthew P. Gillum,Niels Jørgensen,Marianne L. Bergmann,H. Enghusen Poulsen,Ulrik Becker,Jens J. Holst,Helene Benveniste,Nora D. Volkow,Sabine Vollstädt-Klein,Kamilla W. Miskowiak,Claus Thorn Ekstrøm,Gitte M. Knudsen,Tina Visboll,Anders Fink-Jensen +24 more
TL;DR: Although exenatide did not significantly reduce the number of heavy drinking days compared to placebo, it significantly attenuated fMRI alcohol cue-reactivity in the ventral striatum and septal area, which are crucial brain areas for drug reward and addiction.
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Sleep disturbances are associated with cortical and subcortical atrophy in alcohol use disorder.
Rui Zhang,Dardo Tomasi,Peter Manza,Ehsan Shokri-Kojori,Sukru B. Demiral,Sukru B. Demiral,Dana E. Feldman,Danielle S. Kroll,Catherine L. Biesecker,Katherine L. McPherson,Gene-Jack Wang,Corinde E. Wiers,Nora D. Volkow,Nora D. Volkow +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combined sleep EEG recording and high-resolution structural brain imaging to examine the GM-sleep associations in 36 AUD vs. 26 healthy controls (HC) and found evidence that sleep disturbances in AUD were associated with GM reductions.
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Cardiotoxic properties of cocaine: studies with positron emission tomography.
TL;DR: Since uptake of [18F]norepinephrine in the heart is a function of its uptake by the NE transporter, its inhibition by cocaine corroborates in vivo a significant interaction of cocaine with this transporter.
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Neurobiology of the Opioid Epidemic: Basic and Translational Perspectives.
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Dopamine and Glutamate in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
James M. Swanson,Nora D. Volkow,Nora D. Volkow,Jeffrey H. Newcorn,B. J. Casey,Robert K. Moyzis,David K. Grandy,Michael I. Posner +7 more
TL;DR: The evidence from studies conducted over the past decade suggests that dopamine plays a prominent role in the etiology and treatment of ADHD, with consensus views that have emerged at the behavioral, biological, and genetic levels of analysis.