Preliminary Evidence of White Matter Abnormality in the Uncinate Fasciculus in Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 691-694

  Phan, K Luan ^a,b   Orlichenko, Anton ^c   Boyd, Erin ^a   Angstadt, Mike ^a   Coccaro, Emil F ^d   Liberzon, Israel ^a,b   Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anistropy; prefrontal; social phobia; uncinate fasciculus; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749114566     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.02.028     Document Type: Article

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