Atypical visual processing in posttraumatic stress disorder

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 531-538

  Mueller Pfeiffer, Christoph ^a,b,c   Schick, Matthis ^a   Schulte Vels, Thomas ^a   O'Gorman, Ruth ^d   Michels, Lars ^a,d   Martin Soelch, Chantal ^e   Blair, James R ^f   Rufer, Michael ^a   Schnyder, Ulrich ^a   Zeffiro, Thomas ^c   Hasler, Gregor ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Center of Education and Research COEUR   (Switzerland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; fMRI; International Affective Picture System; Sensory perception; Ventral stream; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BATTLE INJURY; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; BULIMIA; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NATURAL DISASTER; NEGLECT; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PANIC; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL PROCESSING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84907427850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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