Impact of acute stress on human brain microstructure: An MR diffusion study of earthquake survivors

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-373

  Chen, Long ^a   Lui, Su ^a   Wu, Qi Zhu ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Dong ^a   Chen, Hua Fu ^b   Huang, Xiao Qi ^a   Kuang, Wei Hong ^a   Chan, Raymond C ^c   Mechelli, Andrea ^d   Gong, Qi Yong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Diffusion tensor imaging; Earthquake; MRI; PTSD; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SURVIVOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84871966634     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21438     Document Type: Article

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