PTSD symptom severity is associated with increased recruitment of top-down attentional control in a trauma-exposed sample

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-27

  White, Stuart F ^a   Costanzo, Michelle E ^b,c   Blair, James R ^a   Roy, Michael J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion attention; Post traumatic stress disorder; Top down attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BATTLE INJURY; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MILITARY SERVICE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; STROOP TEST; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911903115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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