Emotional face processing in adolescents with childhood sexual abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder, internalizing disorders and healthy controls

Hoof, M.J. van; Bulk, Bianca G. van den; Rombouts, Serge A.R.B.; Rinne-Albers, Mirjam A. W.; Wee, Nic J.A. van der; IJzendoorn, Marinus H. van; Vermeiren, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.04.006

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“…Although this was not an inclusion criterion, all participants in our study met DSM-IV criteria for PTSD, signalling that it is a clinically robust group. This study is part of the EPISCA project, in which we investigated the same groups with other structural and functional neuroimaging techniques that yielded results that were in line with the existing literature [19][20][21][22][23][24] . The homogeneous and well circumscribed sample of adolescents with CSA-related PTSD is a strength of this study.…”

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“…The current study reports on cross-sectional baseline data from the adolescents with a history of sexual trauma and healthy non-traumatised controls. See also previous reports from neuroimaging research with the same population [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] . Inclusion criteria for the adolescents with a history of sexual trauma were: having experienced sexual abuse during their lifetime more than once by one or more perpetrators inside or outside the family, and being referred for treatment to the Psychotrauma Center of mental health institute GGZ Rivierduinen in Leiden or the child and adolescent psychotrauma center KJTC in Haarlem, both located in the Netherlands.…”

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Preserved cortical thickness, surface area and volume in adolescents with PTSD after childhood sexual abuse

Rinne-Albers¹,

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Werff

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exposure to childhood adverse events is associated with severe consequences for general health and structural and functional changes in the brain of its survivors. in order to unravel and in the end influence the pathway linking adversity and pathology, neuroimaging research is crucial. Up till now studies in minors are scarce and differ in type of adversity or methodology. Almost all studies report lower cortical thickness, but in a broad variety of regions. In this study we investigated cortical thickness measures and clinical data in a well circumscribed group of adolescents with ptSD related to childhood sexual abuse (cSA) (n = 21) and a healthy non-traumatised control group (N = 21). The ventromedial PFC (vmPFC), ACC, insula, and middle/superior temporal gyrus were chosen as ROI's due to their respective roles in emotion and information processing. No significant effect of group was found for cortical thickness, surface area or volume in any of the ROIs. This is in line with the results of research in adult women with sexual abuse related PTSD, suggesting that this may be specific to this group, independent of age. Recent research points to differential biological and pathological consequences of different types of childhood adversity.

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