POST-DEXAMETHASONE CORTISOL-LEVELS AND COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHIC FINDINGS IN MANIC PATIENTS

Authors
MUKHERJEE S SCHNUR DB LO ES SACKEIM HA COOPER TB
Citation
S. Mukherjee et al., POST-DEXAMETHASONE CORTISOL-LEVELS AND COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHIC FINDINGS IN MANIC PATIENTS, Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 88(3), 1993, pp. 145-148
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
0001690X
Volume
88
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
145 - 148
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-690X(1993)88:3<145:PCACTF>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The relations of post-dexamethasone cortisol levels to computerized to mography (CT) scan findings of lateral and third ventricle size and co rtical sulcal prominence rated separately for frontal and parieto-occi pital distributions were examined in 15 manic patients. Failure to sup press endogenous cortisol after a dexamethasone challenge was associat ed with larger third ventricles, but not to any of the other CT scan m easures.