Reduced hippocampal N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) as a biomarker for overweight

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 326-335

  Coplan, Jeremy D ^a   Fathy, Hassan M ^a   Abdallah, Chadi G ^b   Ragab, Sherif A ^a   Kral, John G ^a   Mao, Xiangling ^c   Shungu, Dikoma C ^c   Mathew, Sanjay J ^d  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Creatine (CR); Generalized anxiety disorder; Neuronal integrity; Obesity; Penn State Worry Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DOWN REGULATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERWEIGHT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOMARKERS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84893327796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

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