Cortical gamma-Aminobutyric acid and glutamate in posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationships to self-reported sleep quality

Sleep

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 893-900

  Meyerhoff, Dieter J ^a   Mon, Anderson ^a   Metzler, Thomas ^b   Neylan, Thomas C ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; GABA; Glutamate; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sleep

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER IDENTIFICATION TEST; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAGERSTROM TEST FOR NICOTINE DEPENDENCE; GLUTAMATE BRAIN LEVEL; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PANIC; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SLEEP QUALITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNITED STATES; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CINGULATE GYRUS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

AROUSAL; ASPARTIC ACID; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899692158     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3654     Document Type: Article

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