Reduced fractional anisotropy in the visual limbic pathway of young adults witnessing domestic violence in childhood

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1071-1079

  Choi, Jeewook ^a,b,c   Jeong, Bumseok ^a,d   Polcari, Ann ^a,b   Rohan, Michael L ^a,b   Teicher, Martin H ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Daejeon St Mary's Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FINANCE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MYELINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER; WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE;

ANISOTROPY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055176459     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.033     Document Type: Article

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