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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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Metabolic Effects of Chronic Cannabis Smoking
Ranganath Muniyappa,Sara Sable,Ronald Ouwerkerk,Andrea Mari,Ahmed M. Gharib,Mary Walter,Amber B. Courville,Gail Hall,Kong Y. Chen,Nora D. Volkow,George Kunos,Marilyn A. Huestis,Monica C. Skarulis +12 more
TL;DR: Chronic cannabis smoking was associated with visceral adiposity and adipose tissue insulin resistance but not with hepatic steatosis, insulin insensitivity, impaired pancreatic β-cell function, or glucose intolerance.
Brain metabolism inpatients withschizophrenia before andafter acute neuroleptic administration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used PET with 11C-2-deoxyglucose (11DG) to compare regional brain metabolism in four patients with chronic schizophrenia who had no history of psychotropic medication and in 12 normal controls.
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Real-time Mobile Monitoring of the Dynamic Associations Among Motor Activity, Energy, Mood, and Sleep in Adults With Bipolar Disorder.
Kathleen R. Merikangas,Joel Swendsen,Joel Swendsen,Ian B. Hickie,Lihong Cui,Haochang Shou,Alison K. Merikangas,Jihui Zhang,Femke Lamers,Ciprian M. Crainiceanu,Nora D. Volkow,Nora D. Volkow,Vadim Zipunnikov +12 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that interventions focused on motor activity and energy may have greater efficacy than current approaches that target depressed mood; both active and passive tracking of multiple regulatory systems are important in designing therapeutic targets.
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The Glymphatic Pathway: Waste Removal from the CNS via Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport:
TL;DR: The general anatomy and physiology of CSF is discussed and reviewed from the perspective of the glymphatic pathway, a discovery which has greatly improved understanding of key factors that control removal of metabolic waste products from the central nervous system in health and disease and identifies an additional purpose for sleep.
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Dopaminergic Response to Drug Words in Cocaine Addiction
Rita Z. Goldstein,Dardo Tomasi,Nelly Alia-Klein,Jean Honorio Carrillo,Thomas Maloney,Patricia A. Woicik,Ruiliang Wang,Frank Telang,Nora D. Volkow +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, drug-related words can trigger activation in the mesencephalon, where dopaminergic cells are located, which is associated with increased dopamine cell firing and enhanced verbal fluency specifically for drug words.