Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Neuroimaging serves as an effec-tive way to investigate the neu-rocircuitry involved in the de-velopment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).1-3 A number of models describing functional neuroanatomy of PTSD symp-tom development emerged over the past decade, inspired by both basic animal re-search and an increasing number of human neuroimaging studies. These models have traditionally conceptualized PTSD as a state of heightened responsivity to threat-ening stimuli and later as a state of insuf-fi cient inhibitory control over-exaggerated threat-sensitivity. They emphasize the cen-trality of threat-related processing in the pathophysiology of PTSD and therefore
Source: Psychiatric Annals
Authors: Sarah N. Garfinkel, Israel Liberzon
Institutions: University of Michigan, Houston Methodist
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2100532508