Early Exposure to Traumatic Stressors Impairs Emotional Brain Circuitry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^a   Antees, Cassandra ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^a,b   Gatt, Justine M ^a   Bryant, Richard A ^c   Cohen, Ronald ^d   Paul, Robert ^e   O'Hara, Ruth ^b   Grieve, Stuart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884475413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075524     Document Type: Article

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