Anderson Mon (PhD)

RESEARCH

• Mathematical modeling of child growth
• Assessment of the physical effects of body fat on MRI-measured brain tissue volumes

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• J. Wang, T.C. Durazzo, S. Gazdzinski, P.H. Yeh, A. Mon, and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2009. MRSI and DTI: A Multimodal Approach for Improved Detection of White Matter Abnormalities in Alcohol and Nicotine Dependence. NMR in Biomedicine. 22: 516-522.
• A. Mon, T.C. Durazzo, S. Gazdzinski and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2009. The Impact of Chronic Cigarette Smoking on Recovery from Cortical Gray Matter Perfusion Deficits in Alcohol Dependence: Longitudinal Arterial Spin Labeling MRI. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 33: 1314-1321.
• T.C. Durazzo, V. Pathak, S. Gazdzinski, A. Mon and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2010. Metabolite Levels in the Brain Reward pathway Discriminate those who Remain Abstinent from those who Resume Hazardous Alcohol Consumption after Treatment for Alcohol Dependence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 71: 278-289.
• S. Gazdzinski, T.C. Durazzo, A. Mon, P.H. Teh and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2010. Cerebral white matter recovery in abstinent alcoholics: a multimodality magnetic resonance study. Brain 133(4): 1043-1053.  
• S. Gazdzinski, T.C. Durazzo, A. Mon and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2010. Body Mass Index is associated with Brain Metabolite Levels in Alcohol Dependence: A Multimodality Magnetic Resonance Study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 34 (12) 2089 – 2096.
• T.C. Durazzo, S. Gazdzinski, A. Mon and D.J. Meyerhoff, 2010. Cortical Perfusion in Alcohol Dependent Individuals during Short-term Abstinence: Relationships to Resumption of Hazardous Drinking Following Treatment. Alcohol 44: 201 – 210.
• Timothy C. Durazzo, Susanna L. Fryer, Johannes C. Rothlind, Mary Vertinski, Stefan Gazdzinski1, Anderson Mon and Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2010. Measures of Learning, Memory and Processing Speed Accurately Predict Smoking Status in Short-term Abstinent Treatment-seeking Alcohol-dependent Individuals: Alcohol and Alcoholism 45 (6) 507 – 513.
• A. Mon, T. Nyland and D. Meyerhoff (2010). Cortical GABA and glutamate changes in post-traumatic stress disorder. Proc. Intl. Mag. Reson. Med. 18.
• Durazzo TC, Tosun D, Buckley S, Gazdzinski S, Mon A, Fryer SL, Meyerhoff DJ, 2011. Cortical thickness, surface area, and volume of the brain reward system in alcohol dependence: relationships to relapse and extended abstinence: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 35 (6): 1187 – 1200.
• Valerie A. Cardenas, Timothy C. Durazzo, Stefan Gazdzinski, Anderson Mon, Colin Studholme, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2011. Brain Morphology at Entry into Treatment for Alcohol Dependence Is Related to Relapse Propensity: Biological Psychiatry 70(6): 561 – 567.
• Anderson Mon, Kevin Delucchi, Thimothy C. Durazzo, Stefan Gazdzinski, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2011. A mathematical formula for prediction of gray and white matter volume recovery in abstinent alcohol dependent individual: Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging 194 (2): 198 – 204.
• Timothy C. Durazzo, Anderson Mon, Stefan Gazdzinski, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2011. Chronic cigarette smoking in alcohol dependence: associations with cortical thickness and N-acetylaspartate levels in the extended brain reward system: Addiction Biology, 18(2): 379 -391.
• A. Mon, T. C. Durazzo, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2012. Glutamate, GABA, and Other Cortical Metabolite Concentrations during Early Abstinence from Alcohol and their Associations with Neurocognitive Changes: Drug Alcohol Depend., 125(1-2): 27 – 36.
• T. Durazzo, A. Mon, D. Pennington, C. Abé, S. Gazdzinski, D. Meyerhoff, 2014. Interactive Effects of Chronic Cigarette Smoking and Age on Brain Volumes in Controls and Alcohol Dependent Individuals in Early Abstinence: Addiction Biology, 19 (1): 132 - 143.
• A. Mon, T. C. Durazzo, S. Gazdzanski, K. Hutchison, C. Abé, D. Pennington, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2012. Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Genotype is associated with Lobar Gray and White Matter Volume Recovery in Abstinent Alcohol Dependent Individuals: Genes, Brain and Behavior; 12(1): 98 - 107.
• Timothy C. Durazzo, Kent E. Hutchison, Susanna L. Fryer, Anderson Mon, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2012. Associations of Cigarette Smoking and Polymorphisms in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Catechol-O-Methyltransferase with Neurocognition in Alcohol Dependent Individuals during Early Abstinence: Frontiers in Neuropharmacology, 3; 178: 1 – 9.
• A. Mon, M. Cabana, B. L. Halpern-Felsher, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2013. Human Linear Growth Trajectory Defined: American Journal of Human Biology; 25 (5): 666 – 672.
• Timothy C. Durazzo, David L. Pennington, Thomas P. Schmidt, Anderson Mon, Christoph Abé, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2013. Neurocognition in 1-Month-Abstinent Treatment-Seeking Alcohol-Dependent Individuals: Interactive Effects of Age and Chronic Cigarette Smoking: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37(10): 1794 – 1803.
• A. Mon, C. Abé, T. C. Durazzo and D. J. Meyerhoff, 2013. Effects of fat on MR-measured metabolite signals: implications for in vivo MR spectroscopy studies of the human brain. NMR in Biomdicine, 26 (12): 1768 – 1774.
• Christoph Abé, Anderson Mon, Michael E. Hoefer, Timothy C. Durazzo, David L. Pennington, Thomas P. Schmidt and Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2013. Metabolic Abnormalities in Lobar and Subcortical Brain Regions of Abstinent Polysubstance Users: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging: Alcohol and Alcoholism, 40(5): 543 - 551.
• D. Pennington, T. C. Durazzo, T. Schmidt, C. Abé, A. Mon, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2013. The Effects of Chronic Cigarette Smoking on Cognitive Recovery during Early Abstinence from Alcohol. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37(7): 1220 – 1227.
• Christoph Abé, Anderson Mon, Timothy C. Durazzo, David L. Pennington, Thomas P. Schmidt and Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2013. Polysubstance and Alcohol dependence: unique abnormalities of magnetic resonance-derived brain metabolite levels. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 130(1-3): 30 – 37.
• Anderson Mon, Dieter Meyerhoff, Michael Cabana and Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, 2014. Rejoinder-Response To: Human Linear Growth Trajectory Defined. American Journal of Human Biology, 26: 109 – 110.
• Dieter Meyerhoff, Anderson Mon, Thomas Metzler  and Thomas C. Neylan, 2014. Cortical GABA and Glutamate in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and their Relationships to Poor Sleep Quality: Sleep, 37(5): 893-900.
• Michael E. Hoefer, David L. Pennington, Christoph Abe, Anderson Mon, Timothy C. Durazzo, Diana Truran, and Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2014. Genetic and Behavioral Determinants of Hippocampal Volume Recovery during abstinence from Alcohol. Alcohol, 48(7): 631 - 638.
• A. Mon, T. C. Durazzo, S. Gazdzinski, C. Abe, D. Pennington, Thomas Schmidt, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2014. Structural brain differences in alcohol-dependent individuals with and without comorbid substance dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 144: 170 - 177.
• T. C. Durazzo, A. Mon, S. Gazdzinski, Ping H. Teh, D. J. Meyerhoff, 2015. Serial longitudinal MRI data indicates non-linear regional gray matter volume recovery in abstinent alcohol dependent individuals. Addiction Biology, 20 (5): 956 – 967.
• David L. Pennington, Timothy C. Durazzo, Thomas P. Schmidt, Christoph Abé, Anderson Mon, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2015. Alcohol Use Disorder with and without Stimulant Use: Brain morphometry and its associations with cigarette smoking, cognition, and inhibitory control. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0122505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122505.
• Tim Durazzo, Anderson Mon, Christoph Abé, Stefan Gazdzinski, Dieter Meyerhoff, 2015. Chronic cigarette smoking in healthy middle-aged individuals is associated with decreased regional brain N-acetylaspartate and glutamate levels. Biological Psychiatry; pii: S0006-3223(15)00283-8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.03.029..
• Donna E. Murray, Timothy C. Durazzo, Anderson Mon, Thomas P. Schmidt, Dieter J. Meyerhoff, 2015.  Brain perfusion in polysubstance users: Its relationship to substance and tobacco use, cognition, and self-regulation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 150: 120 – 128.
• A. Mon, 2015. Prediction of Somatic Growth of Tropical Fish using a Simple Mathematical Formula. African journal of agricultural research. 10(12): 1467 – 1473.
• A. Mon, C. Abé, T. C. Durazzo and D. J. Meyerhoff, 2015. Fat may affect magnetic resonance signal intensity brain tissue volumes. Obesity research and clinical practice, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2015.07.009.