Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During Script-Driven Imagery in Childhood Sexual Abuse-Related PTSD: A PET Investigation

Abstract

The recollection and imagery of traumatic events versus neutral events was accompanied by regional CBF increases in anterior paralimbic regions of the brain in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD. However, the PTSD group had greater increases in orbitofrontal cortex and anterior temporal pole, whereas the comparison group had greater increases in anterior cingulate gyrus.

Keywords

Anterior cingulate cortexCerebral blood flowOrbitofrontal cortexPsychologyMedial frontal gyrusAudiologyTemporal cortexNeuroscienceMedicineInternal medicineFunctional magnetic resonance imagingPrefrontal cortexCognition

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Massachusetts General Hospital US

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Year: 1999
Type: article
Volume: 156
Issue: 4
Pages: 575-584
Citations: 644
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                                    Lisa M. Shin, 
                                
                                    Richard J. McNally, 
                                
                                    Stephen M. Kosslyn
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1999). 
                            Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During Script-Driven Imagery in Childhood Sexual Abuse-Related PTSD: A PET Investigation. 
                            American Journal of Psychiatry
                            , 156
                            (4)
                            , 575-584.
                            https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.156.4.575
                        

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DOI: 10.1176/ajp.156.4.575