Attentional control abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: Functional, behavioral, and structural correlates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attentional disruptions are common in PTSD, but findings across neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have been variable. Few PTSD studies have investigated abnormalities in attention networks using a multi-modal imaging approach and attentional tasks that include emotionally-salient images. This study combined a behavioral task that included these images (emotional Stroop) with functional and structural neuroimaging (fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging; DTI) methods to comprehensively investigate attentional control abnormalities in a highly-traumatized civilian sample.

Methods

48 traumatized women with and without PTSD received clinical assessments, fMRI and DTI. During fMRI, the Affective Stroop (AS), an attentional control task that includes emotionally-sa

SUBMITTER: Fani N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature