Neural functional and structural correlates of childhood maltreatment in women with intimate-partner violence-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-103

  Fonzo, Gregory A ^a   Flagan, Taru M ^a   Sullivan, Sarah ^a   Allard, Carolyn B ^a,b   Grimes, Erin M ^a   Simmons, Alan N ^a,b,c   Paulus, Martin P ^a,b   Stein, Murray B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Center of Excellence in Stress and Mental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Anxiety; Early life stress; Imaging; Neglect; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84873459850     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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