Decreased Premotor Cortex Volume in Victims of Urban Violence with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rocha Rego, Vanessa ^a   Pereira, Mirtes G ^b   Oliveira, Leticia ^b   Mendlowicz, Mauro V ^b   Fiszman, Adriana ^a   Marques Portella, Carla ^a   Berger, William ^b   Chu, Carlton ^c   Joffily, Mateus ^a   Moll, Jorge ^d   Mari, Jair J ^e   Figueira, Ivan ^a   Volchan, Eliane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84865614230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042560     Document Type: Article

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