“…The novel aspect of this work is to associate a measure of striatal dopamine release to the structure of the frontal cortex in humans. This association is of particular interest because alterations in both striatal dopamine and thickness of the frontal cortex have been observed in disease states, including addiction (Volkow et al, 1997;Martinez et al, 2005Martinez et al, , 2007Makris et al, 2008a,b;Durazzo et al, 2011a,b), Parkinson's disease (Brooks, 2003Lyoo et al, 2010;Sioka et al, 2010;Jubault et al, 2011;Pereira et al, 2012), and schizophrenia (Laruelle et al, 1996(Laruelle et al, , 1999AbiDargham et al, 1998;Bertolino et al, 2000;Kuperberg et al, 2003;Nesvåg et al, 2008;Goldman et al, 2009;Kegeles et al, 2010;Rimol et al, 2012). Evidence from these disease states suggests that the relationship between cortex and striatal dopamine function is complex.…”