1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evidence for neural loss in the cingulate gyrus and the right striatum

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-176

  Ebert, Dieter ^a   Speck, Oliver ^a   König, Almuth ^a   Berger, Mathias ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Hohagen, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Brain imaging; N acetyl aspartate; Nuclear magnetic resonance tomography

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; AGING; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL COUNT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031552516     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(97)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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