Neuroimaging in the diagnosis of ADHD: Where we are and where we are going

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-318

  Soliva, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ADHD; diagnostic test; imaging techniques; MRI

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; METHYLPHENIDATE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 79959581313     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2011.577413     Document Type: Review

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