An fMRI investigation of memory encoding in PTSD: Influence of symptom severity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1522-1531

  Dickie, Erin W ^a   Brunet, Alain ^a,b   Akerib, Vivian ^a   Armony, Jorge L ^a,b  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Encoding; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medial frontal cortex; Memory; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICALLY ADMINISTERED POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SCALE SCORE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 42749087403     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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