Apathy in Alzheimer’s Disease Correlates with the Dopamine Transporter Level in the Caudate Nuclei

Apathy in Alzheimer’s Disease Correlates with the Dopamine Transporter Level in the Caudate Nuclei

Introduction: Apathy is a common neuropsychiatric symptom in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The striatal binding potential (BP) of 123I-FP-CIT (N-δ-fluoropropyl-2β-carbomethoxy-3β-[4-iodophenyl]tropane) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is correlated with the degree of apat...

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Main Authors: Niki Udo, Naoki Hashimoto, Takuya Toyonaga, Tomoyuki Isoyama, Yuka Oyanagi, Hisashi Narita, Tohru Shiga, Shin Nakagawa, Ichiro Kusumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2020-09-01
Series:Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Subjects:
alzheimer’s disease
apathy
caudate nucleus
dementia
single-photon emission computed tomography
Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/509278

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