The dopaminergic basis of human behaviors: A review of molecular imaging studies

A Egerton, MA Mehta, AJ Montgomery… - Neuroscience & …, 2009 - Elsevier
This systematic review describes human molecular imaging studies which have investigated
alterations in extracellular DA levels during performance of behavioral tasks. Whilst …

Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game

MJ Koepp, RN Gunn, AD Lawrence, VJ Cunningham… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Dopaminergic neurotransmission may be involved in learning, reinforcement of behaviour,
attention, and sensorimotor integration,. Binding of the radioligand 11C-labelled raclopride …

Cognitive deficits and striato-frontal dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

N Sawamoto, P Piccini, G Hotton, N Pavese… - Brain, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is often accompanied by a pattern of executive deficits
similar to those found in patients with frontal lobe lesions. We investigated whether such …

Tracer kinetic modeling in PET

RE Carson - Positron emission tomography: Basic sciences, 2005 - Springer
The use of radiopharmaceuticals and the imaging of their biodistribution and kinetics with
modern instrumentation are key components to successful developments in PET. Clever …

In vivo association between alcohol intoxication, aggression, and serotonin transporter availability in nonhuman primates

A Heinz, JD Higley, JG Gorey… - American Journal of …, 1998 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Studies on brain serotonin metabolism in human and nonhuman primates
have indicated that dysfunction of serotonin transmission may play a role in the biological …

A novel method for noninvasive detection of neuromodulatory changes in specific neurotransmitter systems

NM Alpert, RD Badgaiyan, E Livni, AJ Fischman - Neuroimage, 2003 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, it has become possible to study theories of cognition using positron
emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). These …

In vivo imaging of neuromodulatory synaptic transmission using PET: a review of relevant neurophysiology

RE Fisher, ED Morris, NM Alpert… - Human Brain …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Recent data from positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies suggest the
possibility of studying synaptic transmission in vivo in humans. The approach will require a …

In vivo detection of striatal dopamine release during reward: a PET study with [11C] raclopride and a single dynamic scan approach

S Pappatà, S Dehaene, JB Poline, MC Gregoire… - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
Anew simple method is proposed to detect, using PET and [11C] raclopride, changes in
striatal extracellular dopamine concentration during a rewarded effortful task. This approach …

Pain activation of human supraspinal opioid pathways as demonstrated by [11C]-carfentanil and positron emission tomography (PET)

B Bencherif, PN Fuchs, R Sheth, RF Dannals… - Pain, 2002 - Elsevier
The role of the supraspinal endogenous opioid system in pain processing has been
investigated in this study using positron emission tomography imaging of [11C]-carfentanil, a …

A linear model for estimation of neurotransmitter response profiles from dynamic PET data

MD Normandin, WK Schiffer, ED Morris - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
The parametric ntPET model (p-ntPET) estimates the kinetics of neurotransmitter release
from dynamic PET data with receptor–ligand radiotracers. Here we introduce a linearization …