Authors

Cameron OG. Modell JG. Hichwa RD. Agranoff BW. Koeppe

RA.

Institution

Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0722.

Title

Changes in sensory-cognitive input: effects on cerebral blood flow.

Source

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 10(1):38-42, 1990 Jan.

Abstract

Eight healthy right-handed young men were subjected to local CBF measurement by [15O]water and positron emission tomography during partial sensory deprivation and during sensory-cognitive activation; physiological, hormonal, and subjective stress measurements were also performed. Results indicated that (a) "whole-brain" CBF increased during activation; (b) the greatest increase in CBF was in the primary visual cortex; (c) differences between hemispheres were not observed, but CBF was greater anteriorly than posteriorly in the deprivation condition only; (d) within-subject variability of CBF was not influenced by the sensory-cognitive condition; and (e) the procedure was not stressful.