Imaging of seasonal affective disorder and seasonality effects on serotonin and dopamine function in the human brain

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-167

  Praschak Rieder, Nicole ^a   Willeit, Matthaeus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Monoamine transporters; PET; SAD; Season; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MAXIMUM BINDING CAPACITY; METABOLISM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SEASON;

BRAIN; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEASONS; SEROTONIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84888646413     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2011_174     Document Type: Article

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