Alteration of corticothalamic perfusion ratios during a PTSD flashback

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 146-150

  Liberzon, Israel ^a,b   Taylor, Stephan F ^a,b   Fig, Lorraine M ^a,c,d   Koeppe, Robert A ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Psychiatry/PCT (116A)   (United States)

Author keywords

combat sounds; flashback; neuroimaging; PTSD; SPECT; thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CRYING; DIAPHORESIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; TACHYPNEA; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VETERANS;

EID: 0030441956     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1996)4:3<146::AID-DA9>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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