TY - JOUR
T1 - Temporal glucose metabolism in borderline personality disorder
AU - De la Fuente, JoséManuel
AU - Lotstra, Françoise
AU - Goldman, Serge
AU - Biver, Françoise
AU - Luxen, André
AU - Bidaut, Luc
AU - Stanus, Etienne
AU - Mendlewicz, Julien
PY - 1994/12
Y1 - 1994/12
N2 - The pathophysiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is obscure. Underlying organic factors such as epilepsy are suspected because clinical characteristics of the syndrome are similar to some manifestations of patients with complex partial seizures (CPS). Positron emission tomography (PET) with F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) reveals hypometabolism in the area surrounding epileptic foci. To test the epilepsy hypothesis in BPD, we have explored 10 patients with BPD and compared them with 15 control subjects using PET with FDG. We conclude that PET provides no metabolic indication of temporal lobe epilepsy in BPD.
AB - The pathophysiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is obscure. Underlying organic factors such as epilepsy are suspected because clinical characteristics of the syndrome are similar to some manifestations of patients with complex partial seizures (CPS). Positron emission tomography (PET) with F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) reveals hypometabolism in the area surrounding epileptic foci. To test the epilepsy hypothesis in BPD, we have explored 10 patients with BPD and compared them with 15 control subjects using PET with FDG. We conclude that PET provides no metabolic indication of temporal lobe epilepsy in BPD.
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U2 - 10.1016/0925-4927(94)90017-5
DO - 10.1016/0925-4927(94)90017-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028555830
VL - 55
SP - 237
EP - 245
JO - Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
JF - Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
SN - 0925-4927
IS - 4
ER -