Regional cerebral blood flow abnormalities in late-life depression: Relation to refractoriness and chronification

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-105

  Awata, Shuichi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^b   Konno, Michiko ^a   Ono, Shuichi ^b   Kawashima, Ryuta ^b   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Sato, Mitsumoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Chronification; Late life depression; Prefrontal cortex; Refractoriness; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONICITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031977729     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb00980.x     Document Type: Article

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