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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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Segmentation of rodent brains from MRI based on a novel statistical structure prediction method
Jinghao Zhou,Sukmoon Chang,Shaoting Zhang,George Pappas,Michael Michaelides,Foteini Delis,Nora D. Volkow,Panayotis K. Thanos,Dimitris N. Metaxas +8 more
TL;DR: A novel method for detecting and locating the brain structures of interest that can be used for the fully automatic functional segmentation of 2D rodent brain MR images based on a novel area ratio criteria is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Changes in brain functional homogeneity in subjects with alzheimer's disease
Nora D. Volkow,Nora D. Volkow,Wei Zhu,Christoph Felder,Klaus Mueller,Tomihisa F. Welsh,Gene-Jack Wang,Mony J. de Leon,Mony J. de Leon +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a template was applied to extract a cortical rim, which was partitioned into 990 contiguous regions, and an estimate of metabolic homogeneity was obtained using the coefficient of variation (CV).
Book ChapterDOI
Brain Imaging and Addiction
TL;DR: Using PET to measure dopamine neurotransmission in the human brain, it is uncovered that dopamine striatal deficits are associated with disrupted prefrontal activity that may explain the loss of control, the compulsive drug taking, and the reduced responsiveness to natural reinforcers typical of addiction.