Threatening faces induce fear circuitry hypersynchrony in soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder

Threatening faces induce fear circuitry hypersynchrony in soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder

Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with atypical responses to emotional face stimuli with preferential processing given to threat-related facial expressions via hyperactive amygdalae disengaged from medial prefrontal modulation. Method: We examined implicit emotional fac...

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Main Authors: Benjamin T Dunkley, Elizabeth W Pang, Paul A Sedge, Rakesh Jetly, Sam M Doesburg, Margot J Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
Neurophysiology
Neural basis of fear
Biological psychiatry
Electrophysiological methods in neurobiology
Methods to study human brain function
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844015303042

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