Early adverse life events are associated with altered brain network architecture in a sex- dependent manner

Neurobiology of Stress

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages 16-26

  Gupta, Arpana ^a   Mayer, Emeran A ^a   Acosta, Jonathan R ^a   Hamadani, Kareem ^a   Torgerson, Carinna ^c   van Horn, John D ^c   Chang, Lin ^a   Naliboff, Bruce ^a   Tillisch, Kirsten ^a,b   Labus, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Early adverse traumatic life events; Emotion regulation network; Moderating effects of sex; Network metrics; Salience network; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EARLY ADVERSE LIFE EVENT; EARLY TRAUMATIC INVENTORY SELF REPORT; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; SALIENCE NETWORK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOMATIZATION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRESS;

EID: 85013177864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23522895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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