Decreased cerebral blood flow in the limbic and prefrontal cortex using SPECT imaging in a cohort of completed suicides

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Willeumier, K ^a   Taylor, D V ^a   Amen, D G ^a  

^a Amen Clinics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; depression; limbic cortex; prefrontal cortex; single photon emission computed tomography; suicide

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUICIDE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052324292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2011.28     Document Type: Article

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