Attention and regional cerebral blood flow in posttraumatic stress disorder patients with substance abuse histories

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-28

  Semple, William E ^a,b   Goyer, Peter F ^a,b,c   McCormick, Richard ^a,b   Compton Toth, Beth ^a   Morris, Evan ^b   Donovan, Beverly ^a   Muswick, Gary ^c   Nelson, Dennis ^c   Garnett, Michelle L ^b   Sharkoff, James ^b   Leisure, Greg ^c   Miraldi, Floro ^c   Schulz, S Charles ^b  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous performance task; Parietal cortex; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030024216     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4927(96)02735-7     Document Type: Article

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