Increased anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus activation in Complex PTSD during encoding of negative words

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-200

  Thomaes, Kathleen ^a,b   Dorrepaal, Ethy ^a   Draijer, Nel ^a   de Ruiter, Michiel B ^a,c   Elzinga, Bernet M ^d   Sjoerds, Zsuzsika ^a,b,c   van Balkom, Anton J ^a   Smit, Johannes H ^a,b   Veltman, Dick J ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Childhood abuse; Complex post traumatic stress disorder; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84876831888     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr084     Document Type: Article

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