Childhood Maltreatment Is Associated with Larger Left Thalamic Gray Matter Volume in Adolescents with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Liao, Mei ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   He, Zhong ^a   Song, Ming ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^b   Li, Zexuan ^a   Lu, Shaojia ^a   Wu, Weiwei ^a   Su, Linyan ^a   Li, Lingjiang ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; PUTAMEN; SCREEN FOR CHILD ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PUTAMEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84881497720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071898     Document Type: Article

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