Neuroimaging and neurocircuitry in post-traumatic stress disorder: What is currently known?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-383

  Tanev, Kaloyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PLACEBO; YOHIMBINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS; WAR; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0642336293     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-003-0072-7     Document Type: Review

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