Véronique Delvenne

TL;DR: In patients with unipolar depression, metabolic rates were increased in the orbital part of the frontal lobe and decreased in a frontal dorsolateral area, and the metabolic supero-basal gradient calculated in the frontal cortex was significantly lower in depressed patients than in normal subjects.

TL;DR: Cerebral glucose metabolism was studied in 20 underweight anorectic girls and in 10 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers using positron emission tomography with (18-F)-fluorodeoxy-glucose to hypothesize a primary corticocerebral dysfunctioning in anorexia nervosa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared brain glucose metabolism at rest in anorectic and bulimic patients and found that both groups differed from control subjects in low relative parietal values of glucose, indicating either a common parietal cortex dysfunction in eating disorders or a particular sensitivity of this cortex to consequences of eating disturbances.

TL;DR: Cerebral glucose metabolism in 10 anorectic girls within their underweight state and after weight gain is studied to support a potential abnormal cerebral functioning, a different reaction to starvation within several regions of the brain or different restoration rates according to the region.

TL;DR: The predominantly cortical blood flow, measured on the outer cerebral rim of the third tomographic slice, was significantly lower on the left hemisphere in bipolar patients when compared with normals and unipolar patients.