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. 2014 May 7;9(5):e96319. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096319

Figure 2. Dorsal striatal dopamine and BMI.

Figure 2

A) PET imaging with FMT showed lower dorsal striatal dopamine synthesis capacity in a representative higher BMI individual (left) than a representative lower BMI individual (right, raw images for illustration purposes only). B) BMI and dorsal striatal dopamine were negatively correlated as measured by the PET ligand FMT, a measure of presynaptic dopamine synthesis capacity, relative to the cerebellum (r = −0.66, p = 0.014, n = 16, controlled for age, sex and any changes in BMI from PET scan to behavioral testing).