Glucose is the long-established, obligatory fuel for brain that fulfills many critical functions,
including ATP production, oxidative stress management, and synthesis of neurotransmitters …

Dynamic PET (dPET) studies have been used until now primarily within research purposes.
Although it is generally accepted that the information provided by dPET is superior to that of …

• We used positron emission tomography to investigate local cerebral metabolic rates for
glucose (LCMRG1c) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after …

Practice of a novel task leads to improved performance. The brain mechanisms associated
with practice-induced improvement in performance are largely unknown. To address this …

“Functional” tumor treatment response parameters have been developed to measure
treatment induced biochemical changes in the entire tumor mass, using positron emission …

Cocaine exhibits prominent abuse liability, and chronic abuse can result in cocaine use
disorder with significant morbidity. Major advances have been made in delineating …

Purpose We report the first clinicopathological series of longitudinal FDG-PET scans in post-
mortem (PM) verified cognitively normal elderly (NL) followed to the onset of Alzheimer's …

Neuropathology studies show that patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and
Alzheimer's disease typically have lesions of the entorhinal cortex (EC), hippocampus (Hip) …

We used MRI volume sampling with coregistered and atrophy corrected FDG-PET scans to
test three hypotheses: 1) hippocampal formation measures are superior to temporal …

Obesity has been associated with a higher risk for impaired cognitive function, which most
likely reflects associated medical complications (ie, cerebrovascular pathology). However …