Increased medial temporal blood flow in Parkinson's disease with pathological hypersexuality

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 471-473

  Shinkai, Takayuki ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^a   Satoshi, Ueno ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; DROXYDOPA; LEVODOPA; PERGOLIDE; QUETIAPINE; SELEGILINE; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GAIT DISORDER; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; OBSESSION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 67651085710     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22373     Document Type: Letter

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