Post-traumatic stress and age variation in amygdala volumes among youth exposed to trauma

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1661-1667

  Weems, Carl F ^a   Klabunde, Megan ^b   Russell, Justin D ^a   Reiss, Allan L ^b   Carrión, Victor G ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Development; FreeSurfer; Severe stress; SMRI; Traumatic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CHILD; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CHILD; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84952891858     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv053     Document Type: Article

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