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Overview

Nora D. Volkow is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their academic and research activities are primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with substantial work in several related subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, and Diet and Metabolism Studies.

Among recent publications by Nora D. Volkow are:

  • "Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics" (2020) published in Annals of Internal Medicine
  • "The changing opioid crisis: development, challenges and opportunities" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Peter Manza
  • Gene-Jack Wang
  • Dardo Tomasi
  • Corinde E. Wiers
  • Ehsan Shokri-Kojori

Publications by this scientist often appear in several notable venues such as:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Nora D. Volkow has received recognition including the Grand prix de l'Inserm from the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in 2009. Additional honors include membership in the National Academy of Medicine since 2000 and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Neurocircuitry of Addiction

    George F Koob;Nora D Volkow

  • The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice

    Peter W. Kalivas;Nora D. Volkow

  • Neurobiology of addiction: A neurocircuitry analysis.

    George F Koob;Nora D Volkow

  • Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nora D. Volkow

  • Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use

    Nora D. Volkow;Ruben D. Baler;Wilson M. Compton

  • Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow

  • Brain dopamine and obesity.

    Gene-Jack Wang;Gene-Jack Wang;Nora D Volkow;Nora D Volkow;Jean Logan;Naoml R Pappas

  • Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

    Nora D. Volkow;George F. Koob;A. Thomas McLellan

  • Graphical analysis of reversible radioligand binding from time-activity measurements applied to [N-11C-methyl]-(-)-cocaine PET studies in human subjects

    Jean Logan;Joanna S. Fowler;Nora D. Volkow;Alfred P. Wolf

  • Addiction, a Disease of Compulsion and Drive: Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Nora D. Volkow;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Distribution Volume Ratios without Blood Sampling from Graphical Analysis of PET Data

    Jean Logan;Joanna S. Fowler;Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow;Gene Jack Wang

  • Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Ruben D. Baler

  • How can drug addiction help us understand obesity

    Nora D Volkow;Roy A Wise

  • Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies

    Nora D. Volkow;A. Thomas McLellan

  • The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction.

    Nora D. Volkow;Marisela Morales

  • Cocaine cues and dopamine in dorsal striatum: mechanism of craving in cocaine addiction.

    Nora D Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S Fowler

  • The addicted human brain: insights from imaging studies

    Nora D. Volkow;Joanna S. Fowler;Gene-Jack Wang

  • Dopamine in drug abuse and addiction: results from imaging studies and treatment implications

    Volkow Nd;Fowler Js;Wang Gj;Swanson Jm

  • Decreased dopamine D2 receptor availability is associated with reduced frontal metabolism in cocaine abusers

    Nora D. Volkow;Joanna S. Fowler;Gene‐Jack ‐J Wang;Robert Hitzemann;Robert Hitzemann

  • Association of Dopamine Transporter Reduction With Psychomotor Impairment in Methamphetamine Abusers

    Nora D. Volkow;Linda Chang;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene-Jack Wang
Gene-Jack Wang National Institutes of Health
Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jean Logan
Jean Logan New York University
Dardo Tomasi
Dardo Tomasi National Institutes of Health
Frank Telang
Frank Telang National Institutes of Health
Yu-Shin Ding
Yu-Shin Ding New York University
Alfred P. Wolf
Alfred P. Wolf Brookhaven National Laboratory
Rita Z. Goldstein
Rita Z. Goldstein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Nelly Alia-Klein
Nelly Alia-Klein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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