Hydrocortisone responsiveness in Gulf War veterans with PTSD: Effects on ACTH, declarative memory hippocampal [18F]FDG uptake on PET

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-127

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a,b   Golier, Julia A ^a,b   Bierer, Linda M ^a,b   Mikhno, Arthur ^c,d   Pratchett, Laura C ^a,b   Burton, Charles L ^a,b   Makotkine, Iouri ^a,b   Devanand, D P ^e   Pradhaban, Gnanavalli ^e   Harvey, Philip D ^e,f   Mann, J John ^c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET; Cortisol; Episodic memory; Glucocorticoid receptors; Gulf War veterans; Hippocampus; PTSD

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERBAL MEMORY; VETERAN; WAR;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GULF WAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 78650204453     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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