| WEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL COURSE | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Clinical Intensive Education Option | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MRI in Drug Abuse | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ORGANIZERS: Nicola De Stefano, M.D., Ph.D., Marco Essig, M.D., Ph.D., Nadine J. Girard, M.D., Jeffrey Joseph Neil, M.D., Ph.D. & Afonso C. Silva, Ph.D. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| OVERVIEW | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
This two-hour course consists of a teaching sessions
covering the use of MR methods to evaluate drug abuse. Speakers will
be both physicians and physicists. The principal topics to be
covered are: « Drug exposure in utero – effects of drug abuse on the fetus; « Cocaine addiction – anatomic and functional MRI finding; and « MRI of ecstasy addiction. The overall goal is to familiarize the attendee with MRI findings related to drug abuse. The format will be didactic sessions with time allotted for discussion. |
|||||||||||||||||||||
| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Upon completion of this course participants should be able to: | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
«
List and describe illicit drug effects on the fetus; « Describe the anatomic findings of cocaine addiction; « Explain the relationship between the functional MRI findings of cocaine addiction and theories regarding its underlying neurophysiology; and « Describe the MRI correlates of ecstasy addiction. |
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
to view the abstract pdf and click on
