A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Deliberate Emotion Regulation in Resilience and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 656-664

  New, Antonia S ^a,b   Fan, Jin ^b   Murrough, James W ^b   Liu, Xun ^b   Liebman, Rachel E ^b   Guise, Kevin G ^b   Tang, Cheuk Y ^b   Charney, Dennis S ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; PTSD; resilience; sexual assault; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL ABUSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749105360     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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