Substance Abuse Associated With Lower Brain Volume In Women - But Not Men

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 02:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study has found that long-term stimulant abuse had more significant effects on brain volume in women compared with men. The researchers sought to determine how the brains of people previously dependent on stimulants were different from the brains of healthy people.  The researchers analyzed structural brain magnetic resonance imaging exams in 127 men and women, including 59 people (28 women and 31 men) who were previously dependent on cocaine, amphetamines and/or methamphetamine for an average of 15.7 years, and 68 people (28 women and 40 men) who were similar in age and were not previously dependent on those drugs. read more

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