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Neurocircuits Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Its Dissociative Subtype, Andrew A. Nicholson
Neurocircuits Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Its Dissociative Subtype, Andrew A. Nicholson
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The amygdala and insula are highly implicated in the pathophysiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where both have been shown to be hyper/hypoactive in PTSD and dissociative subtype (PTSD+DS) PTSD patients, respectively, during symptom provocation. However, the functional connectivity of individual amygdala and insula subregions have not previously been compared in PTSD, PTSD+DS and healthy controls. In two separate studies, we examined amygdala complex (chapter 2) and insula subregion (chapter 3) functional connectivity patterns using resting-state fMRI. Patients with PTSD and PTSD+DS were found to display unique amygdala complex functional connectivity patterns to prefrontal cortex (PFC) regions involved in emotion …