Cerebral Correlates of the Activation of the Cardiovascular Autonomic Nervous System – An FDG-PET Study
P Schlindwein, F Birklein, M Dieterich, HG Buchholz, P Bartenstein · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2004 · Heft 08
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Background: Visual self-motion perception is induced by large-field visual motion stimulation (circular vection, CV). The stationary observer perceives the surroundings as being stable and himself as being moved. This stimulus provides profound activation, in particular, of the sympathetic nervous system (arousal reaction) Our fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET study focused on those brain areas that are involved in the processing of autonomic changes during CV. Correlation analyses were performed between metabolic effects and autonomic parameters during visual motion stimulation. Methods: FDG-PET (Siemens, Germany) w…