ContextDeficits in cerebral glucose utilization have been identified in patients with cognitive
dysfunction attributed to various disease processes, but their prognostic and diagnostic …

Despite the increasing use of 18F-FDG PET as a biomarker for predicting therapeutic response,
there are no widely accepted standardized protocols for using 18F-FDG PET as a tool …

2-[ 18 F]Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) assesses a
fundamental property of neoplasia, the Warburg effect. This molecular imaging technique offers a …

Background Crack cocaine dependence and addiction is typically associated with frequent
and intense drug wanting or craving triggered by internal or environmental cues associated …

The authors assessed the role of positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in differentiation of benign from malignant focal pulmonary …

VISUALLY guided reaching requires complex neural transformations to link visual and
proprioceptive inputs with appropriate motor outputs 1,2 . Despite the complexity of these …

Considerable evidence indicates that the amygdala plays a critical role in negative, aversive
human emotions. Although researchers have speculated that the amygdala plays a role in …

The purpose of this study was to confirm with pathologic verification 2 beliefs related to
Alzheimer's disease (AD): (a) the long-standing impression that bilateral temporo-parietal …

Purpose: Left cervical vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) decreases complex partial seizures (CPS)
by unknown mechanisms of action. We hypothesized that therapeutic VNS alters …

Facial expressions of emotion powerfully influence social behavior. The distributed network
of brain regions thought to decode these social signals has been empirically defined using …