Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have reduced absolute cortical blood flow

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 83-86

  Yoshiuchi, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Farkas, Jeffrey ^a   Natelson, Benjamin H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Medically unexplained illness; Middle cerebral artery; Psychiatric disorders; Xenon computed tomography

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; XENON;

EID: 33644759344     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2006.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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