Cerebral Blood Flow Differences in Major Depressive Disorder using Arterial Spin Labeling: Preliminary Results from the EMBARC Study

Background: Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique used to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF; i.e., perfusion) and could be used as an effective tool to understand resting state abnormalities in patient populations such as major depressive disorder (MDD). So far, previous research using ASL in depression revealed CBF abnormalities in the default mode network in some cases (Orosz et al., 2012). ASL has also been...