Reduced medial prefrontal cortex volume in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 832-838

  Van Harmelen, Anne Laura ^a   Van Tol, Marie Jos ^a,b   Van Der Wee, Nic J A ^a,b   Veltman, Dick J ^c   Aleman, Andr ^d,e   Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   Van Buchem, Mark A ^a,b   Zitman, Frans G ^b   Penninx, Brenda W J H ^b,c,d,e   Elzinga, Bernet M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; childhood abuse; depression; emotional maltreatment; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); medial prefrontal cortex (PFC)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD EMOTIONAL MALTREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 77957919106     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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