Neuropsychiatric disorders with cortical amyloid deposition such as Alzheimer'
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Aged 20 to 89 at the time of obtaining informed consent (2) Those who can accomplish all the medical and imaging procedures (3) MMSE score greater than or equal to 27 (4) Brain MRI results within normal limits for the subject's age (5) Those who can give written informed consent before participating in this study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Women who are or may be pregnant, or breast-feeding women (2) History of alcohol abuse (3) History of receiving epileptic treatment (4) Education period less than or equal to 6 years (5) The subject is taking antidepressants or psychotropic drugs or receiving the long-time administration of sedative agents. (6) History of neuropsychiatric disorders that are known to cause cognition (7) The subject is critically ill and/or medically unstable (e.g. volunteers with advanced hepatic or renal dysfunction, or with severe endocrine metabolic disease) (8) The subject whose MRI shows that ischemic white matter disease and/or lacunar infarctions are beyond normal range according to the guideline from the Japan Brain Dock Society (9) The subject whose MRI shows space-occupying lesions, unexpected cerebrovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease or congenital abnormality in the brain (10) History of high amount of radiation exposure
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Establishment of a (18)F-FBB PET normative database of Japanese nondemented subjects including young adults | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Safety assessment on (18)F-FBB PET and age-related PET positivity in Japanese normal volunteers | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Keio University School of Medicine Department of Diagnostic Radiology