[Effect of L-DOPA administration on brain bioelectrical activity in hypothalamo-hypophyseal diseases]

Probl Endokrinol (Mosk). 1978 Mar-Apr;24(2):13-7.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The influence of the L-DOPA preparation on the bioelectrical activity of the brain was studied in 15 patients with Itsenko-Cushing's disease and in 12 patients with diencephalic obesity. L-DOPA administration caused an increase of the theta-rhythm index in the anterior leads in comparison with the initial recording, although the periods of detection of this elevation differed in various patients. No changes of the character of the EEG recording during the test with L-DOPA in comparison with the background recording was revealed in the patients with Itsenko-Cushings disease.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Alpha Rhythm
  • Brain / drug effects*
  • Brain Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Cushing Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Diencephalon
  • Drug Evaluation
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypothalamus*
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Obesity / drug therapy
  • Pituitary Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Pituitary Diseases / physiopathology
  • Theta Rhythm
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Levodopa