Tyrosine depletion alters cortical and limbic blood flow but does not modulate spatial working memory performance or task-related blood flow in humans

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1136-1149

  Ellis, Kathryn A ^a,b,c   Mehta, Mitul A ^c,d   Murthy, P J Naga Venkatesha ^c   McTavish, Sarah F B ^e   Nathan, Pradeep J ^f   Grasby, Paul M ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dopamine; PET; Regional cerebral blood flow; Spatial working memory; Tyrosine depletion; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DOPAMINE; PHENYLALANINE; PLACEBO; TYROSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOPAMINE; FOOD, FORMULATED; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TYROSINE;

EID: 35948945291     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20339     Document Type: Article

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