Medial frontal cortex involvement in PTSD symptoms: A SPECT study

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 259-264

  Zubieta, Jon Kar ^a,b,c   Chinitz, Julie A ^b   Lombardi, Umberto ^b   Fig, Lorraine M ^c,d   Cameron, Oliver G ^a   Liberzon, Israel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; STRESS; SYMPTOM; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF DISCLOSURE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM;

EID: 0032923375     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3956(98)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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