Structural alterations in lateral prefrontal, parietal and posterior midline regions of men with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 176-186

  Eckart, Cindy ^a,b   Stoppel, Christian ^d   Kaufmann, Jörn ^d   Tempelmann, Claus ^d   Hinrich, Hermann ^d   Elbert, Thomas ^a,c   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^d   Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RHOMBENCEPHALIC ISTHMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 79955544992     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: 14882434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.100010     Document Type: Article

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