Amygdala Reactivity and Anterior Cingulate Habituation Predict Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Maintenance After Acute Civilian Trauma

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1023-1029

  Stevens, Jennifer S ^a   Kim, Ye Ji ^a   Galatzer Levy, Isaac R ^b   Reddy, Renuka ^a   Ely, Timothy D ^a   Nemeroff, Charles B ^c   Hudak, Lauren A ^a   Jovanovic, Tanja ^a   Rothbaum, Barbara O ^a   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,d,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arousal; Fear; fMRI; Prospective; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROWTH CURVE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; AGED; CINGULATE GYRUS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85009865352     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.11.015     Document Type: Article

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