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Citation

Kim SY, Chung YK, Kim BS, Lee SJ, Yoon JK, An YS. Psychiatry Res. 2012; 201(3): 214-217.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.08.007

PMID

22464826

Abstract

In the literature, numerous trials using neuroimaging techniques have investigated brain function in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the contrasting results showed that improvements, including in the study design, were required to reach consistent and convincing conclusions. This study evaluated the functional neuroimaging pattern of resting cerebral blood flow and glucose metabolism in patients with PTSD related to sexual assault. Twelve patients were enrolled for both brain single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) investigations. All data were analyzed with statistical parametric mapping 2 (SPM2). The PTSD patients showed significant relative decreases in perfusion in the left hippocampus and in the basal ganglia compared with the control group. The PTSD group also had significantly lower cerebral glucosemetabolic activity in the left hippocampus and the superior temporal and precentral gyri than in the control group. These specific patterns of perfusion and glucose metabolism may be closely related to various neurophysiologic symptoms of PTSD.


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