Changes in long term neural connectivity following psychological trauma

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 309-314

  Cook, Fallon ^b   Ciorciari, Joseph ^b   Varker, Tracey ^c   Devilly, Grant J ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental; EEG coherence; Neural connectivity; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RATING SCALE; SURVIVOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59249094061     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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