External awareness and GABA-A multimodal imaging study combining fMRI and [18F]flumazenil-PET

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 173-184

  Wiebking, Christine ^a,b   Duncan, Niall W ^b   Qin, Pengmin ^b   Hayes, Dave J ^b   Lyttelton, Oliver ^b   Gravel, Paul ^c   Verhaeghe, Jeroen ^c   Kostikov, Alexey P ^c   Schirrmacher, Ralf ^c   Reader, Andrew J ^c   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,d   Northoff, Georg ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness; Exteroception; FMRI; GABA; Interoception; PET

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR BINDING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

AWARENESS; EXTEROCEPTION; FMRI; GABA; INTEROCEPTION; PET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889650314     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22166     Document Type: Article

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