79 results match your criteria: "PET Scanning in Autism Spectrum Disorders"
PET Clin
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address:
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a characteristically heterogeneous disorder, as multiple neurodevelopmental disorders are characterized by similar symptomology and behavior. Research has shown that individuals with ASD benefit from early intervention; neuroimaging data may reveal information that cannot be obtained from traditional behavioral analysis. This review discusses the use of structural MR imaging, functional MR imaging (fMR imaging), and PET in the detection of ASD.
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June 2024
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA.
Curr Med Imaging
February 2024
Associazione Italiana Medicina Nucleare (AIMN), Pediatric Study Group, Milan, Italy.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) consists of neurological development disorders that manifest before three years of age and affect social interactions, markedly restricting range of interests and activities, often associated with some degree of intellectual disability. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are non-invasive imaging tools to investigate the function of the brain in vivo. SPECT and PET studies exploring rCBF and brain glucose metabolism in patients with ASD have been performed, providing important insights into the brain regions involved in ASD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurosci
December 2023
Applied & Translational Neurogenomics Group, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnology (VIB) Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, Antwerp 2610, Belgium
Front Neuroendocrinol
July 2023
Clinical Nursing Teaching and Research Section, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China. Electronic address:
Objective: The present study aimed to systematically and quantitatively review evidence derived from both postmortem brain and PET studies to explore the pathological role of glia induced neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of ASD, and discuss the implications of these findings in relation to disease pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies.
Method: An online databases search was performed to collate postmortem studies and PET studies regarding glia induced neuroinflammation in ASD as compared to controls. Two authors independently conducted the literature search, study selection and data extraction.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
January 2023
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Am J Psychiatry
April 2023
Department of Psychiatry (Kato, Yokokura, Murayama, Goto, Tamayama, Kameno, Wakuda, Kuwabara, Benner, Yamasue), United Graduate School of Child Development (Yokokura, Iwabuchi, Harada, Kameno, Kuwabara, Senju, Yamasue), Research Center for Child Mental Development (Iwabuchi, Harada, Senju), and Department of Biofunctional Imaging (Ouchi), Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan; Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan (Tsukada); Hamamatsu Medical Imaging Center, Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation, Hamamatsu, Japan (Nishizawa, Ouchi).
Objective: Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in previous studies of postmortem brain or peripheral samples. The authors investigated whether and where mitochondrial dysfunction occurs in the living brains of individuals with ASD and to identify the clinical correlates of detected mitochondrial dysfunction.
Methods: This case-control study used positron emission tomography (PET) with 2--butyl-4-chloro-5-{6-[2-(2-[F]fluoroethoxy)-ethoxy]-pyridin-3-ylmethoxy}-2H-pyridazin-3-one ([F]BCPP-EF), a radioligand that binds to the mitochondrial electron transport chain complex I, to examine the topographical distribution of mitochondrial dysfunction in living brains of individuals with ASD.
Front Psychol
May 2022
Laboratoire d'Observation et d'Éthologie Humaine du Québec, Montréal Mental Health University Institute, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS Est), Montréal, QC, Canada.
Processing and recognizing facial expressions are key factors in human social interaction. Past research suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present difficulties to decode facial expressions. Those difficulties are notably attributed to altered strategies in the visual scanning of expressive faces.
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June 2022
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Mol Psychiatry
April 2022
Department of Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Cowden disease is associated with neurodevelopmental abnormalities such as macrocephaly, autism spectrum disorder, and developmental delay. Our understanding of neuroimaging anomalies in patients with PTEN mutations is limited to anatomical MRI abnormalities including white matter abnormalities, meningiomas, arteriovenous malformations, and cortical dysplasia. Our current communication extends the neurological Cowden syndrome phenotype by using brain 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging as a useful complementary approach to MRI to explore movement disorders and neuropsychiatric syndromes in a patient with Cowden disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIr J Psychol Med
September 2022
Department of Psychiatry, Cavan-Monaghan Community Mental Health Services, Cavan, Ireland.
Int J Mol Sci
March 2021
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences-Child Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Transl Psychiatry
January 2021
Rivierduinen Institute for Mental Healthcare, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Alterations in dopamine signalling have been implied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and these could be associated with the risk of developing a psychotic disorder in ASD adults. Negative social experiences and feelings of social defeat might result in an increase in dopamine functioning. However, few studies examined dopamine functioning in vivo in ASD.
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January 2021
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA.
J Psychiatr Res
November 2020
Clinical Nursing Teaching and Research Section, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China. Electronic address:
Background: Although the precise pathophysiologies underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has not yet been fully clarified, growing evidence supports the involvement of neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of this disorder, with microglia being particular relevance in the pathophysiologic processes.
Objective: The present review aimed to systematically characterize existing literature regarding the role of microglia mediated neuroinflammation in the etiology of ASD.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted for records indexed within Pubmed, EMBASE, or Web of Science to identify potentially eligible publications.
Cereb Cortex
November 2020
Department of Functional Brain Imaging, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Chiba, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
ACS Chem Neurosci
August 2020
Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States.
Brain
June 2020
Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mol Psychiatry
May 2021
Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA.
Mechanisms of neuroimmune and mitochondrial dysfunction have been repeatedly implicated in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To examine these mechanisms in ASD individuals, we measured the in vivo expression of the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), an activated glial marker expressed on mitochondrial membranes. Participants underwent scanning on a simultaneous magnetic resonance-positron emission tomography (MR-PET) scanner with the second-generation TSPO radiotracer [C]PBR28.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Pediatr
November 2019
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
J Autism Dev Disord
July 2019
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Front Psychiatry
February 2019
Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Sci Rep
November 2018
RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, 6-7-3 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan.
Sci Transl Med
October 2018
Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm County Council, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.