Abnormal brain response to cholinergic challenge in chronic encephalopathy from the 1991 Gulf War

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-220

  Haley, Robert W ^a   Spence, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Carmack, Patrick S ^a,b   Gunst, Richard F ^b   Schucany, William R ^b   Petty, Frederick ^c,d   Devous Sr , Michael D ^a   Bonte, Frederick J ^a   Trivedi, Madhukar H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain diseases; Persian Gulf syndrome; Physostigmine; Regional blood flow; Tomography, emission computed, single photon; Veterans

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VETERANS;

EID: 61349148603     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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