... to suppress irrelevant information and supports the belief that methamphetamine abusers have difficulty concentrating. The results imply that long-term abuse of methamphetamine can cause impaired functioning within the cortical networks, resulting in deficits to the response-inhibition functioning of the frontostriatal network (Salo et al., 2002). In a study conducted by Volkow et al. (2001a), methamphetamine abusers underwent positron emission tomography ... methamphetamine addiction (Swan, 2003). Nordahl et al. (2003) states "a convergence of evidence from behavioral studies in humans...

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