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Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological testing in Lyme disease
B A Fallon1, S Das, J J Plutchok
1The New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia University and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York 10032, USA.
Abstract:
Differentiating neuropsychiatric Lyme disease from a primary psychiatric disorder can be a daunting task. This article describes how functional brain imaging and neuropsychological testing can be particularly valuable in helping to make diagnostic distinctions. In addition to a review of the relevance of functional imaging to neuropsychiatry in general, recent findings are presented regarding the use of single photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) imaging in Lyme disease.