HMPAO SPET does not distinguish obsessive-compulsive and tic syndromes in families multiply affected with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 737-740

  Moriarty, J ^a,b   Eapen, V ^a   Costa, D C ^a   Gacinovic, S ^a   Trimble, M ^a   Ell, P J ^a   Robertson, M M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSION; RELATIVE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIC DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030976377     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291796004072     Document Type: Article

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