Hyperintensities on T2-weighted images in the basal ganglia of patients with major depression: Cerebral perfusion and clinical implications

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-130

  Vardi, Noa ^a,b   Freedman, Nanette ^a   Lester, Hava ^a   Gomori, John M ^a   Chisin, Roland ^a   Lerer, Bernard ^a   Bonne, Omer ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

CBF; Cognition; Depression; MRI; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955473824     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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