Neuroimaging findings in posttraumatic stress disorder: Review of the literature;Bildgebende befunde bei der posttraumatischen belastungsstörung (PTBS): Literaturübersicht

Fortschritte der Neurologie Psychiatrie

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 377-391

  Jatzko, A ^a,b   Schmitt, A ^b   Kordon, A ^c   Braus, Dieter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 23144435981     PISSN: 07204299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830120     Document Type: Review

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