title: Cerebral glucose metabolic rates in nondepressed patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: The authors compared 10 nondepressed patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder with 10 normal control subjects of the same sex and similar age for cerebral glucose metabolic rates obtained using positron emission tomography. Obsessive-compulsive patients showed significantly elevated metabolic rates in the whole cerebral hemispheres, heads of the caudate nuclei, orbital gyri, and the orbital gyri relative to the ipsilateral hemisphere (the orbital-hemisphere ratio). These results are similar to those the authors reported previously for another group of obsessive-compulsive patients and normal control subjects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Baxter
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mazziotta
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Phelps
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pahl
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Guze
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fairbanks
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000503:physiopathology; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D003847:Deoxyglucose