Liver Depression & PET Scans

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PET means positro emission tomography. In issue #3, 2005 of Zhong Yi

Yan Jiu (Chinese Medical Research), Wang Shou-cheng et al. published

an article describing changes in PET scans associated with liver qi

depression and binding. Using intravenously injected

flourine-18-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG) as a marker for brain

activity, they found that glucose metabolism was decreased in the

following areas of the brain:

 

Brodmann 47 (orbital)

Brodmann 21 (middle temporal)

Brodmann 6 or even 4 and 6 (6, agranular frontal, 4, gigantopyramidal)

 

However, glucose metabolism was increased in right Brodmann 18

(parastriate).

 

Just thought this was interesting.

 

Bob