Quantitative assessment of cerebral ventricular volumes in chronic fatigue syndrome

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-30

  Lange, Gudrun ^a   Holodny, Andrei I ^a   DeLuca, John ^a,b   Lee, Huey Jen ^a   Yan, Xiao Hong Michelle ^c   Steffener, Jason ^a   Natelson, Benjamin H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain pathology; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Lateral ventricle; Morphometry; Volumetric assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PILOT STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0035019231     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15324826AN0801_4     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed., rev.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Blatter, D. D., Bigler, E. D., Gale, S.D., Johnson, S. C., Anderson, C. V., Burnett, B. M., Parker, N., Kurth, S., & Horn, S. D. (1995). Quantitative volumetric analysis of brain MR: Normative database spanning 5 decades of life. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 16, 241-251.
3. Buchwald, D., Cheney, P. R., Peterson, D. L, Henry, B., Wormsley, S. B., Geiger, A., Ablashi, D. V., Salahuddin, S. Z., Saxinger, C., Biddle, R., Kikinis, R., Jolesz, T. A., Folks, T., Balachandran, N., Peter, J. B., Gallo, R. C., & Komaroff, A. L. (1992). A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpes virus type 6 infection. Annals of Internal Medicine, 116, 103-113.
4. Coffey, C. E., Wilinson, W. E., Weiner, R. D., Parashos, J. A., Djang, W. T., Webb, M. C., Figiel, G. S., & Spritzer, C. E. (1993). Quantitative cerebral anatomy in depression. A controlled magnetic resonance imaging study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50, 7-16.
5. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
6. Costa, D. C., Tannock, C., & Brostoff, J. (1995). Brainstem perfusion is impaired in chronic fatigue syndrome. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 88, 767-773.
7. DeLuca J., Johnson, S., Beldowicz, D., & Natelson, B. H. (1995). Neuropsychological impairments in chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and depression. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 58, 38-43.
8. DeLuca, J., Johnson, S. K., Ellis, S. P., & Natelson, B. H. (1997). Cognitive functioning is impaired in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome devoid of psychiatric disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 62, 151-155.
9. Fukuda, K., Straus, S. T., Hickie, I., Sharpe, M. C., Dobbins, J. G., & Komaroff, A. (1994). The chronic fatigue syndrome: A comprehensive approach to its definition and study. Annals of Internal Medicine, 121, 953-959.
10. Gale, S. D., Sterling, C. J., Bigler, E. D., & Blatter, D. D. (1995). Trauma-induced degenerative changes in brain injury: A morphometric analysis of three patients with preinjury and postinjury MR scans. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12, 151-158.
11. Gorelick, P. B., Chatterjee, A., Patel, D., Flowerdew, G., Dollear, W., Taber, J., & Harris, Y. (1992). Cranial computed tomographic observations in multi-infarct dementia: A controlled study. Stroke, 23, 804-811.
12. Gur, R. E., Mozley, P. D., Shtasel, D. L., Cannon, T. D., Gallacher, F., Turesky, B., Grossman, R., & Gur, R. C. (1994). Clinical subtypes of schizophrenia: Differences in brain and CSF volume. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 343-350.
13. Heinz, E. R., Martinez, J., & Haenggeli, A. (1977). Reversibility of cerebral atrophy in anorexia nervosa and Cushing's syndrome. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 1, 415-418.
14. Holodny, A. I., Waxman, R., George, A. E., Rusinek, H., Kalnin, A. J., & de Leon, M. (1998). MR differential diagnosis of normal-pressure hydrocephalus and Alzheimer disease: Significance of perihippocampal fissures. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 19, 813-819.
15. Lange, G., DeLuca, J., Maldjian, J. A., Lee, H., Tiersky, L. A., & Natelson, B. H. (1999). Brain MRI abnormalities exist in a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 171, 3-7.
16. Lange, G., Wang, S., DeLuca, J., & Natelson, B. H. (1998). Neuroimaging in chronic fatigue syndrome. American Journal of Medicine, 105, 50S-53S.
17. Markus, S., Robins, L. N., & Bucholz, K. (1990). Quick diagnostic interview schedule 3R version 1. St. Louis, MO: Washington University School of Medicine.
18. Mathalon, D. H., Sullivan, E. V., Rawles, J. M., & Pfefferbaum, A. (1993). Correction for head size in brain-imaging measurements. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 50, 121-139.
19. Murphy, D. G., DeCarli, C. D., Daly, E., Gillette, J. A., McIntosh, A. R., Haxby, J. V., Teichberg, D., Schapiro, M. B., Rapoport, S. I., & Horwitz, B. (1993). Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging in men with dementia of the Alzheimer type: Correlations with disease severity. Biological Psychiatry, 34, 612-621.
20. Natelson, B. H., Cohen, J. M., Brassloff, I., & Lee, H.-J. (1993). A controlled study of brain magnetic resonance imaging in patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 120, 213-217.
21. Pfefferbaum, A., & Marsh, L. (1995). Structural brain imaging in schizophrenia. Clinical Neuroscience, 3, 105-111.
22. Schwartz, R. B., Garada, B. M., Komaroff, A. L., Tice, H. M., Gleit, M., Jolesz, F. A., & Holman, B. L. (1994). Detection of intracranial abnormalities in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: Comparison of MR imaging and SPECT. American Journal of Radiology, 162, 935-941.
23. Tirelli, U., Chierichetti, F., Tavio, M., Simonelli, C., Bianchin, G., Zanco, P., & Ferlin, G. (1998). Brain positron emission tomography (PET) in chronic fatigue syndrome: Preliminary data. American Journal of Medicine, 105, 54S-58S.
24. Yan, M. X. H., & Karp, J. S. (1995). An adaptive Bayesian approach to three-dimensional MR brain segmentation. In Y. Bizais, C. Barillot, & R. DiPaol (Eds.), Information processing in medical imaging (pp. 201-213). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
25. Zipursky, R. B., Lim, K. O., & Pfefferbaum, A. (1990). Volumtric assessment of cerebral asymmetry from CT scans. Psychiatry Research, 35, 71-89.