Pattern of cortical activation during processing of aversive stimuli in traumatized survivors of war and torture

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 340-351

  Catani, Claudia ^a   Adenauer, Hannah ^b   Keil, Julian ^b   Aichinger, Hannah ^b   Neuner, Frank ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Steady state visual evoked fields (SSVEF)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TORTURE SURVIVOR;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TORTURE; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69049104102     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-009-0006-4     Document Type: Article

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