Brainstem glucose metabolism predicts reward dependence scores in treatment-resistant major depression - Wu, Guo-Rong; Baeken, Chris (Psychological medicine, 2022)
Keywords: Antidepressants; Brain research; Brain stem; Brain Stem - diagnostic imaging; Character; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnostic imaging; Depressive Disorder, Major - drug therapy; Dopamine receptors; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Gender; Glucose; Glucose metabolism; Humans; Individual differences; Locus coeruleus; Medical imaging; Mental depression; Metabolism; Neurobiology; Neuroimaging; Neurosciences; Novelty seeking; Original; Original Article; Personality; Personality Inventory; Personality tests; Personality traits; Pontine nuclei; Positron emission tomography; Refractory depression; Reinforcement; Reticular formation; Reward; Temperament; Temperament - physiology; Tomography; Treatment resistance; Ventral tegmentum; 18FDG PET; reward dependence; depression; TCI; treatment resistance