Increased neural response to trauma scripts in posttraumatic stress disorder following paroxetine treatment: A pilot study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 491, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 196-201

  Fani, Negar ^a,b   Ashraf, Ali ^a   Afzal, Nadeem ^a   Jawed, Farhan ^a   Kitayama, Noriyuki ^a   Reed, Lai ^a   Bremner, J Douglas ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Paroxetine; Post traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; Trauma script

Indexed keywords

PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PILOT STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAROXETINE; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79951772471     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.01.037     Document Type: Article

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