Focal brain damage protects against post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans

• Main Authors: Koenigs, Michael, Huey, Edward D., Raymont, Vanessa, Solomon, Jeffrey, Wassermann, Eric M., Grafman, Jordan, Cheon, Bobby Kyungbeom
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102102; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24225
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an often debilitating mental illness that is characterized by recurrent distressing memories of traumatic events. PTSD is associated with hypoactivity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), hyperactivity in the amygdala and reduced volume in the hippo...