Neurostructural imaging findings in children with post-traumatic stress disorder: Brief review

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Jackowski, Andrea Parolin ^a   De Araújo, Celia Maria ^a   De Lacerda, Acioly Luiz Tavares ^a,b,c   De Jesus Mari, Jair ^a   Kaufman, Joan ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SINAPSE Institute   (Brazil)

^c Center for Research and Clinical Trials Sinapse Bairral   (Brazil)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Corpus callosum; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 58449123046     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01906.x     Document Type: Review

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