Impulsivity and prefrontal hypometabolism in borderline personality disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 153-163

  Soloff, Paul H ^a,b   Meltzer, Carolyn Cidis ^a   Becker, Carl ^a   Greer, Phil J ^a   Kelly, Thomas M ^a   Constantine, Doreen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Personality disorders; Positron emission tomography; Prefrontal cortex; Suicide

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCALE UP; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0042591399     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00064-7     Document Type: Article

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