Early life stress and trauma and enhanced limbic activation to emotionally valenced faces in depressed and healthy children

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Suzuki, Hideo ^a   Luby, Joan L ^a   Botteron, Kelly N ^a   Dietrich, Rachel ^a   McAvoy, Mark P ^a   Barch, Deanna M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

child; early life stress; early life trauma; emotion; fMRI

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BIOMARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903275628     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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