New publication: Cocaine use disorder (CUD) and accelerated brain aging
Leonardo Melo Rothmann, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira and colleagues just published the article "The cortical thickness of tricenarian cocaine users assembles features of an octogenarian brain" in Journal of Neuroscience Research.
In their research, Leonardo Melo Rothmann, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveria and colleagues explore cocaine use disorder (CUD) and accelerated brain aging.
In simple terms, their study uses advanced brain imaging to compare adults in their 30s with CUD, healthy individuals in the same age group, and older adults.
The study finds that certain brain areas in the CUD group resemble those of 80-year-olds despite being 50 years younger.
These results suggest that CUD might be related to accelerated brain aging.
This finding is significant as it contributes to our understanding of the long-term ef- fects on the brain and could have implications for treatment and prevention strategies in substance use disorders.
Contact
Leonarod Melo Rothmann
Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Aarhus University
leo@clin.au.dk
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira
Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Aarhus University
rogo@clin.au.dk