Metabolic neuroimaging of the brain in diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 588-597

  Cheah, Yee Seun ^a   Amiel, Stephanie A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; RACLOPRIDE C 11;

APPETITE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY BALANCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTELLECT; METABOLIC REGULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; OBESITY;

EID: 84866631440     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2012.97     Document Type: Review

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