Brain activation and heart rate during script-driven traumatic imagery in PTSD: Preliminary findings

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 204, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 155-160

  Barkay, Gavriel ^a   Freedman, Nanette ^b   Lester, Hava ^b   Louzoun, Yoram ^c   Sapoznikov, Dan ^b   Luckenbaugh, Dave ^d   Shalev, Arieh Y ^b   Chisin, Roland G ^b   Bonne, Omer ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Imaging; PET; PTSD

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; WATER O 15;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLENCHING TEETH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84872379501     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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