2024
11C-UCB-J PET imaging is consistent with lower synaptic density in autistic adults
Matuskey D, Yang Y, Naganawa M, Koohsari S, Toyonaga T, Gravel P, Pittman B, Torres K, Pisani L, Finn C, Cramer-Benjamin S, Herman N, Rosenthal L, Franke C, Walicki B, Esterlis I, Skosnik P, Radhakrishnan R, Wolf J, Nabulsi N, Ropchan J, Huang Y, Carson R, Naples A, McPartland J. 11C-UCB-J PET imaging is consistent with lower synaptic density in autistic adults. Molecular Psychiatry 2024, 1-7. PMID: 39367053, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02776-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPositron emission tomographySynaptic densityAutistic adultsBrain regionsAutistic featuresClinical phenotype of autismNon-autistic participantsPhenotype of autismNon-autistic individualsRelationship to clinical characteristicsSynaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2AAssociated with clinical measuresPost-mortem studiesPositron emission tomography scanPrefrontal cortexClinician ratingsAutism groupNeural basisBrain areasNeural processesBetween-group differencesVolumetric differencesBinding potentialDensity of synapsesAutism
1992
Dissociation of Object and Spatial Vision in Human Extrastriate Cortex: Age-Related Changes in Activation of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Measured with [15 O]Water and Positron Emission Tomography
Grady C, Haxby J, Horwitz B, Schapiro M, Rapoport S, Ungerleider L, Mishkin M, Carson R, Herscovitch P. Dissociation of Object and Spatial Vision in Human Extrastriate Cortex: Age-Related Changes in Activation of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Measured with [15 O]Water and Positron Emission Tomography. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 1992, 4: 23-34. PMID: 23967855, DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1992.4.1.23.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRegional cerebral blood flowCerebral blood flowSuperior parietal cortexOlder subjectsParietal cortexBlood flowYoung subjectsPositron emission tomographic scansDissociation of ObjectOccipitotemporal cortexOlder male subjectsVisual cortical areasMore activationHuman extrastriate cortexPositron emission tomographyAge-related reductionAge-related changesTomographic scanCortical areasBrain areasMale subjectsVisual pathwayEmission tomographyExtrastriate cortexCortex