Аннотация:This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 ISBRA Meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The co‐chairs were Karl Mann and Ingrid Agartz. The presentations were (1) Neuropathological changes in alcohol‐related brain damage, by Clive Harper; (2) Regional brain volumes including the hippocampus and monoamine metabolites in alcohol dependence, by Ingrid Agartz, Susan Shoaf, Robert R, Rawlings, Reza Momenan, and Daniel W Hommer; (3) Diffusion tensor abnormalities in imaging of white matter alcoholism, by Adolf Pfefferbaum and Edith V. Sullivan; (4) Use of functional MRI to evaluate brain activity during alcohol cue exposure in alcoholics: Relationship to craving, by Raymond F. Anton, David J. Drobes, and Mark S. George; and (5) μ‐Opiate receptor availability in alcoholism: First results from a positron emission tomography study, by Karl Mann, Roland Bares, Hans‐Juergen Machulla, Goetz Mundle, Matthias Reimold, and Andreas Heinz.
