Changes in regional cerebral blood flow during acute electroconvulsive therapy in patients with depression: Positron emission tomographic study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 190, Issue JAN., 2007, Pages 63-68

  Takano, Harumasa ^a,b   Motohashi, Nobutaka ^c,e   Uema, Takeshi ^c   Ogawa, Kenichi ^d   Ohnishi, Takashi ^c   Nishikawa, Masami ^c   Kashima, Haruo ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUNITRAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANESTHESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDER; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846282745     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.023036     Document Type: Article

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