Inverse association between BMI and prefrontal metabolic activity in healthy adults

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-65

  Volkow, Nora D ^a,b   Wang, Gene Jack ^c   Telang, Frank ^b   Fowler, Joanna S ^c   Goldstein, Rita Z ^c   Alia Klein, Nelly ^c   Logan, Jean ^c   Wong, Christopher ^c   Thanos, Panayotis K ^b   Ma, Yemine ^b   Pradhan, Kith ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57949090528     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.469     Document Type: Article

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