GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CORTICAL GLUCOSE-METABOLISM IN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE AND NORMAL AGING

Authors
SIEGEL BV SHIHABUDDIN L BUCHSBAUM MS STARR A HAIER RJ NETO DCV
Citation
Bv. Siegel et al., GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CORTICAL GLUCOSE-METABOLISM IN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE AND NORMAL AGING, The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 8(2), 1996, pp. 211-214
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology",Psychiatry
Journal title
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
08950172
Volume
8
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
211 - 214
Database
ISI
SICI code
0895-0172(1996)8:2<211:GDICGI>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Male Alzheimer's disease patients, studied with 18-fluoro-2-deoxygluco se posit ron emission tomography while performing a verbal memory test , showed a right-greater-than-left asymmetry of cortical metabolism th at tended to be greater than that in healthy, age-matched control subj ects. This asymmetry was absent in female patients, preliminarily sugg esting a propensity for left hemispheric involvement in the Alzheimer' s disease process in males.