Burning odor-elicited anxiety in OEF/OIF combat veterans: Inverse relationship to gray matter volume in olfactory cortex

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-66

  Cortese, Bernadette M ^a   McConnell, Patrick A ^a   Froeliger, Brett ^a   Leslie, Kimberly ^a   Uhde, Thomas W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; MRI; Odor threat; PTSD; Trauma; VBM

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; RUBBER; FRAGRANCE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; ODOR; ODOR ELICITED ANXIETY; OLFACTORY CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VETERAN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SMELLING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ODORANTS; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RUBBER; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84943423669     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.08.015     Document Type: Article

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