Abstract:BackgroundOpioid addiction is a serious mental health problem with substantial impact on society and healthcare. The diagnosis and monitoring of its treatment are almost exclusively clinical tasks and their efficacy is often unsatisfactory. This suggests a need to study potential biomarkers of opiod addiction. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and our modification of the Stroop-task to investigate patients’ reactivity to emotionally relevant (drug-related) stimuli and its impa… Show more
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