Positron emission tomographic studies in aging and cerebrovascular disease at hammersmith hospital

Oral methylphenidate fails to elicit sig

Oral methylphenidate fails to elicit significant changes in extracellular putaminal dopamine levels in Parkinson's disease patients: Positron emission tomographic studies

✍ Kaveh M. Koochesfahani; Raúl de la Fuente-Fernández; Vesna Sossi; Michael Schulz 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 85 KB

## Abstract In this study, we assessed the changes of endogenous dopamine (DA) levels in response to methylphenidate in 5 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 6 healthy controls. Three‐dimensional positron emission tomography was performed with the D2 receptor antagonist [^11^C]rac