Functional brain imaging in 14 patients with dissociative amnesia reveals right inferolateral prefrontal hypometabolism

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-39

  Brand, Matthias ^a   Eggers, Carsten ^b   Reinhold, Nadine ^a   Fujiwara, Esther ^c   Kessler, Josef ^b   Heiss, Wolf Dieter ^b   Markowitsch, Hans J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Functional neuroimaging; Mnestic block syndrome; Psychogenic amnesia

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ADULT; AMNESIA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71749112550     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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