Brain integrity and cerebral atrophy in vietnam combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 402-410

  Hedges, Dawson W ^a   Thatcher, G William ^b,c   Bennett, Pamela J ^b,c   Sood, Shabnam ^b,c   Paulson, David ^b,c   Creem Regehr, Sarah ^f   Brown, Bruce L ^a   Allen, Steven ^d,e   Johnson, Jamie ^a   Froelich, Brooke ^a   Bigler, Erin D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Affairs VISN 19 MIRECC ^*  (United States)

^c Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^d Salt Lake City Health System   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral atrophy; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Total brain volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; VETERAN; VIET NAM; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 58149293512     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701851551     Document Type: Article

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