Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 32-39 , 30 October 2009

Functional brain imaging in 14 patients with dissociative amnesia reveals right inferolateral prefrontal hypometabolism

  • Matthias Brand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P.O. Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P.O. Box 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. Tel.: +49 521 1064488; fax: +49 521 1066049.
    • Current address: General Psychology: Cognition, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Essen, Germany.
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  • Carsten Eggers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany
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  • Nadine Reinhold

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P.O. Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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  • Esther Fujiwara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Walter Mackenzie Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada AB T6G 2R7
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  • Josef Kessler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany
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  • Wolf-Dieter Heiss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany
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  • Hans J. Markowitsch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P.O. Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany

Received 21 October 2008 ,Accepted 16 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.03.008

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 32-39 , 30 October 2009

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