Persistent and reversible consequences of combat stress on the mesofrontal circuit and cognition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15508-15513

  Van Wingen, Guido A ^a,b   Geuze, Elbert ^c,d   Caan, Matthan W A ^b   Kozicz, Tamás ^a,e   Olabarriaga, Silvia D ^b   Denys, Damiaan ^b   Vermetten, Eric ^c,d   Fernández, Guillén ^a,f  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Ministerie van Defensie   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Functional MRI; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Prospective; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COMBAT DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MESENCEPHALON; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866549371     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206330109     Document Type: Article

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