Hypo-metabolism of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex associated with working memory impairment in 18 cases of schizophrenia

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 115-123

  Mazgaj, Robert ^a,b   Tal, Assaf ^a   Goetz, Raymond ^c   Lazar, Mariana ^a   Rothman, Karen ^a,b   Messinger, Julie Walsh ^a,b,d   Malaspina, Dolores ^a,b   Gonen, Oded ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Creedmoor State Psychiatric Center   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Creatine; Energy metabolism; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging; Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; CHOLINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; CREATINE; ESCITALOPRAM; ESZOPICLONE; FLUPHENAZINE; GABAPENTIN; INOSITOL; LITHIUM; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE; ZIPRASIDONE; ASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; AGING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CINGULATE GYRUS; GLIOSIS; INTELLIGENCE TEST; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGING; ASPARTIC ACID; CREATINE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INOSITOL; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959931737     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-015-9372-x     Document Type: Article

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