Regional cerebral blood flow changes in a patient with delusional parasitosis before and after successful treatment with risperidone: A case report

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 737-740

  Narumoto, Jin ^a   Ueda, Hideki ^a   Tsuchida, Hideto ^a   Yamashita, Tatsuhisa ^a   Kitabayashi, Yurinosuke ^a   Fukui, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delusional parasitosis; rCBF; Risperidone; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123; RISPERIDONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARIETAL LOBE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISPERIDONE; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33646091279     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.11.029     Document Type: Article

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