Association between flashbacks and structural brain abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder

European Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 525-531

  Kroes, M C W ^a   Whalley, M G ^b   Rugg, M D ^c   Brewin, C R ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flashbacks; MRI; Neurocircuitry; PTSD; Trauma; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY; NIGHTMARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80055022171     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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