Maltreatment Exposure, Brain Structure, and Fear Conditioning in Children and Adolescents

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1956-1964

  McLaughlin, Katie A ^a   Sheridan, Margaret A ^b   Gold, Andrea L ^c   Duys, Andrea ^a   Lambert, Hilary K ^a   Peverill, Matthew ^a   Heleniak, Charlotte ^a   Shechner, Tomer ^d   Wojcieszak, Zuzanna ^e   Pine, Daniel S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ABUSE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THREAT; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CONDITIONED REFLEX; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84954357617     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.365     Document Type: Article

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