Intranasal Oxytocin Affects Amygdala Functional Connectivity after Trauma Script-Driven Imagery in Distressed Recently Trauma-Exposed Individuals

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1286-1296

  Frijling, Jessie L ^a   Van Zuiden, Mirjam ^a   Koch, Saskia B J ^a   Nawijn, Laura ^a   Veltman, Dick J ^b   Olff, Miranda ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ARQ PSYCHOTRAUMA EXPERT GROUP   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DSM-IV; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SOMNOLENCE; TENSION; TRAUMA SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAUMA SCRIPT DRIVEN IMAGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; IMAGINATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYTOCIN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960887041     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.278     Document Type: Article

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