Metabolic Brain Networks in Tourette Syndrome

Abstract

Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, studied metabolic brain networks associated with Tourette syndrome (TS) and comorbid obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) using PET imaging and spatial covariance analysis in 12 unmedicated patients and 12 age-matched controls.

Keywords

• metabolic brain networks
• tourette syndrome
• orbitofrontal cortex