BMC Psychiatry

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Insular cortex involvement in declarative memory deficits in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder

Shulin Chen1,2,3*, Lingjiang Li3, Baihua Xu2 and Jun Liu3

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medical Psychology, the Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China

2 Department of Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China

3 Mental Health Institute, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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BMC Psychiatry 2009, 9:39 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-9-39

Published: 18 June 2009

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Table 1. Performance during Encoding and Retrieval Tasks for Patients with PTSD and Comparison subjects.

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Table 2. Local Maxima of Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent fMRI Signal Change during Encoding in Comparison Subjects and Patients with PTSD. Notes in Table 2 and Table 3. Bold means interesting areas. a Peak activation in a cluster of at least ten voxel in which the difference in signal change exceeded an extent and threshold corrected p value of 0.05. b Coordinates from the stereotaxic atlas of Talairach and Tournoux.

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Table 3. Local Maxima of Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent fMRI Signal Change during Retrieval in Healthy Comparison Subjects and Patients with PTSD. Notes in Table 2 and Table 3. Bold means interesting areas. a Peak activation in a cluster of at least ten voxel in which the difference in signal change exceeded an extent and threshold corrected p value of 0.05. b Coordinates from the stereotaxic atlas of Talairach and Tournoux.

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