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There are new several studies of positron emission tomography in epilepsy, and virtually all have used fluoro-deoxyglucose as the preferred method of investigation. They have mainly examined selected patients undergoing evaluation for consideration of temporal lobe surgery for intractable seizures. Similarly, the published data using this technique in schizophrenia have also used glucose uptake to assess metabolism. The Hammersmith group have developed the technique using oxygen-15 and positron emission tonography for the measurement of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), and the regional oxygen extraction fraction (rOER), which permits the calculation of regional oxygen metabolism (rCMRO2), (Frackcwiak, Lenzi, Jones and Heather 1980). In this paper we presentdata on a group of patients with epileptic psychosis.
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Gallhofer, B., Trimble, M.R., Frackowiak, R.S.J., Wise, R.J.S., Jones, T. (1985). A Study of Epilepsy and Interictal Psychosis Using the Oxygen-15 Inhalation Technique and Position Emission Tomography. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Biological Psychiatry, Higher Nervous Activity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8329-1_44
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