Increased cerebral blood flow in depressed patients responding to electroconvulsive therapy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1075-1080

  Bonne, Omer ^a   Krausz, Yodphat ^b   Shapira, Baruch ^b   Bocher, Moshe ^b   Karger, Haim ^b   Gorfine, Malka ^b   Chisin, Roland ^b   Lerer, Bernard ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

brain SPECT; electroconvulsive therapy; major depression; technetium 99m HMPAO

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME;

EID: 0029743081     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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