Mega-Analysis of Gray Matter Volume in Substance Dependence: General and Substance-Specific Regional Effects

Scott Mackey1, Nicholas Allgaier1, Bader Chaarani1

  • 1From the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington; Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, Australia; the Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene; the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; the Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn; the Department of Psychiatry and the MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; the Neuroimaging Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore; the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences and the School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; the Departments of Developmental and Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal; the Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London; the Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland; the Department of Neuroscience and the Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research and Arkin Mental Health Care, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder; the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles; the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.; the Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego; the Clinical Neuroimaging Research Core, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Md.; the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Okla.; the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; the Institute of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, and the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; the School of Psychology and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; the Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia; the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; the Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey; and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal.

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