Overeating Behavior and Striatal Dopamine with 6--Fluoro-L--Tyrosine PET
Figure 3
Relationship between Weight Loss Attempts/Years Trying and FMT uptake in the dorsal putamen averaged over the left and right hemispheres in 15 young healthy individuals. Weight Loss Attempts/Years Trying reflects an estimate of the frequency of prior weight loss attempts. FMT uptake reflects dopamine synthesis capacity and is measured as partial volume corrected influx constant, or in 1/minute.
