Riitta Parkkola

Research interests

Publications

• Effect of Inhaled Xenon on Cerebral White Matter Damage in Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

  JAMA · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.1933

• Human brown adipose tissue [15O]O2 PET imaging in the presence and absence of cold stimulus

  European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging · 2016 · 10.1007/s00259-016-3364-y

• Obesity Is Associated with Decreased μ-Opioid But Unaltered Dopamine D 2 Receptor Availability in the Brain

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2015 · 10.1523/jneurosci.4744-14.2015

• In Vivo Detection of Diffuse Inflammation in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Using PET Imaging and the Radioligand 11 C-PK11195

  Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2014 · 10.2967/jnumed.113.131698

• Blunted metabolic responses to cold and insulin stimulation in brown adipose tissue of obese humans

  Obesity · 2013 · 10.1002/oby.20456

• Amyloid PET imaging in patients with mild cognitive impairment

  Neurology · 2011 · 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318212015e

• Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy

  NeuroImage · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.014

• Impaired cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease is related to caudate dopaminergic hypofunction and hippocampal atrophy

  Parkinsonism & Related Disorders · 2008 · 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.03.005

• Fluorine-18-l-Dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-DOPA) Positron Emission Tomography as a Tool to Localize an Insulinoma or β-Cell Hyperplasia in Adult Patients

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2007 · 10.1210/jc.2006-1479

• PET amyloid ligand [ 11 C]PIB uptake is increased in mild cognitive impairment

  Neurology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000260969.94695.56

• Cognitive reserve hypothesis: Pittsburgh Compound B and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in relation to education in mild Alzheimer's disease

  Annals of Neurology · 2007 · 10.1002/ana.21212

• Noninvasive Diagnosis of Focal Hyperinsulinism of Infancy With [18F]-DOPA Positron Emission Tomography

  Diabetes · 2006 · 10.2337/diabetes.55.01.06.db05-1128

• Automatic attention orienting by social and symbolic cues activates different neural networks: An fMRI study

  NeuroImage · 2006 · 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.048

• Myocardial Triglyceride Content and Epicardial Fat Mass in Human Obesity: Relationship to Left Ventricular Function and Serum Free Fatty Acid Levels

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2006-0584

• Voxel-based analysis of PET amyloid ligand [ 11 C]PIB uptake in Alzheimer disease

  Neurology · 2006 · 10.1212/01.wnl.0000240117.55680.0a

• S -Ketamine Anesthesia Increases Cerebral Blood Flow in Excess of the Metabolic Needs in Humans

  Anesthesiology · 2005 · 10.1097/00000542-200508000-00008

• Differential Effects of Rosiglitazone and Metformin on Adipose Tissue Distribution and Glucose Uptake in Type 2 Diabetic Subjects

  Diabetes · 2003 · 10.2337/diabetes.52.2.283

• Glucose Uptake and Perfusion in Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue during Insulin Stimulation in Nonobese and Obese Humans

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem.87.8.8761

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Discs and Trunk Muscles in patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Healthy Control Subjects

  Spine · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1097/00007632-199306000-00004

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