Morphologic alterations in the corpus callosum in abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A preliminary study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1027-1029

  Kitayama, Noriyuki ^a   Brummer, Marijn ^b   Hertz, Lois ^b   Quinn, Sinead ^b   Kim, Yoshiharu ^a   Bremner, J Douglas ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse related; Corpus callosum; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 37349021415     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815c044f     Document Type: Article

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